Fwd: Help for Screen resolution

[NoOp]

On 10/07/2007 08:31 AM, Ashfaq Shaikh wrote:
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> From: Ashfaq Shaikh <ashfaq.s76 at gmail.com>
> Date: Oct 7, 2007 8:38 PM
> Subject: Help for Screen resolution
> To: ubuntu-in-request at lists.ubuntu.com
> Cc: 797714.16207.qm at web94310.mail.in2.yahoo.com
> 
> Dear, when I bought the machine it came with vista ultimat, worked fine no
> problem at all. With Machine I had gone for Viewsonic VG1930wm a wide screen
> multimedia monitor, that too worked fine. Windows did not had any problems
> as far as resolution is concerned.
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> 
> Now, installation was fine no problem even softwares got updated, speed and
> feel was just admirable, but the resolution looked fade, on checking found
> it was max, 1024x768 in the list of three. Checked into forums and tried to
> download nvidia driver did it, but no difference. Read second edition E
> Book, tried to reconfigure xorg, from recovery at boot, did all the steps as
> instructed but no change. Although I did choose the required resolution of
> 1440x900 in xorg config, but after rebooting no change is seen, accept one!
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In xorg.conf add in the horizontal & vertical sync frequencies:
<http://www.viewsonic.com/products/desktopdisplays/lcddisplays/graphicseries/vg1930wm/#specs>
Frequency  	Fh: 24~82kHz, Fv: 50~75Hz

For example, here is the section for one of my monitors:

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"MegaImage 17"
	Option		"DPMS"
	HorizSync	28-64
	VertRefresh	43-100

So our H & V would be:

	HorizSync	24-82
	VertRefresh	50-75

Change/add those two lines and you should be be able to get all of your
monitor resolutions.