Setting the screen resolution

[Andrew S.]

Hi Vince,

Your instructions were perfect! I had no problem modifying the
"xorg.conf" file. Now the screen resolution and refresh rate are much
better although the resolution is not as high as I'd like it to be (it
only goes up to 1024x768, but I'd like it to be 1280x1024), but it is
still a HUGE improvement. Thanks again for your time and willingness
to help. I greatly appreciate it. I think I am going to like Linux!

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:15:38 -0500
>  "Andrew S." <vir.admin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > Hi Vince,
>  >
>  > Thank you for your email. I found the "xorg.conf" file but I am not
>  > sure how to edit it, or what to edit (I am new to the world of Linux).
>  > Can you tell me what changes I need to make and how to make them to
>  > resolve my problem?
>
>
>  Hi Andrew,
>
>  First of all, that file being a system file, you have to have
>  administrative rights to be allowed to modifiy/write to it:
>
>  Press Alt+F2 to display the "run" dialog box, then enter:
>
>  gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
>  press enter, then you will asked for your password (the same password
>  that you used to log in).
>
>  Now you should have the file loaded into "Gedit", the text editor of
>  Gnome/Ubuntu.
>
>  THe file is very well structured: you have various "sections", each of
>  them describes a peripheral that make part of the user interface, for
>  example the keyboard, the mouse, the video card, the monitor.
>
>  What you need to do is specify a couple characteristics (the refresh
>  rates) of your monitor. SO in the file, locate this section:
>
>
>
>  Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier "Configured Monitor"
>  EndSection
>
>
>  make add acouple lines in that section, so that it looks like that:
>
>
>  Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier "Configured Monitor"
>     HorizSync      31-69
>     VertRefresh    55-120
>  EndSection
>
>
>  Now, the numerical values I indicated here (31-69, and 55-120) are
>  those that correspond to MY monitor, don't use these values ! They
>  differ from monitor to monitor !
>  So you must use the values that correspond to YOUR particular monitor.
>  So, dig out the user/technical manual of your monitor, and search for
>  that information. They should be easy to find, as they are very
>  basic/important charateristics of any monitor.
>  If you give us the exact model of your monitor (and is it an LCD or
>  CRT to start with?), we could search for the user manual on the
>  internet, and find out the values for you.
>
>
>
>
>  --
>  Vince
>
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