screen resolution “SOLVED”

[Linda Vest Castanos]

Good info Will - thank you

On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 00:48 -0400, William Witt wrote:
> On Saturday 16 August 2008 00:06:00 Linda Vest Castanos wrote:
> > I didn't see anything to turn off.  It didn't do it with 7.04
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 21:18 -0500, Victor Padro wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:53 PM, William Witt
> > > <william at witt-family.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >         On Friday 15 August 2008 20:01:25 Linda Vest Castanos wrote:
> > >         > When I boot up and shut down Ubuntu (8.04 Hardy Heron), I
> > >
> > >         get the
> > >
> > >         > following message like a floating screen saver. How do I get
> > >
> > >         rid of it.
> > >
> > >         > "Not Optimum Mode"
> > >         >
> > >         > Recommended Mode
> > >         >
> > >         > 1280 X 1024 60 HZ"
> > >         >
> > >         >
> > >         > XP resolution is 1024 X 728 which I'm happy with.
> > >         > (System-Preference-Screen Resolution) under Ubuntu reads
> > >
> > >         "1280 X
> > >         1024 .
> > >
> > >         > When I switch XP to "1280 X 1024 60 HZ", it's to small. I
> > >
> > >         would be
> > >         happy
> > >
> > >         > to get rid of the so call 'screen saver' "Not Optimum Mode"
> > >
> > >         and be
> > >         done
> > >
> > >         > with it.
> > >         >
> > >         >
> > >         > Any suggestions?
> > >         >
> > >         >
> > >         > Linda
> > >
> 
> 
> This is happening only during the ubuntu splash screens at boot and shutdown, 
> but not during normal operation, correct?  I found this just a while ago while 
> searching for a problem I'm having on the development branch.
> 
> http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5477/
> 
> [QUOTE]
> usplash should get an gui for setting up resulution, the method that we use at 
> the moment is not for new users, 
> to get the right resolution we often have to do something like this : sudo 
> gedit /etc/usplash.conf 
> see the resolutions and fill in the ones you want , 
> 
> this is how it looks 
> 
> # Usplash configuration file 
> xres=1024 
> yres=768 
> 
> then save the new file and run 
> 
> sudo update-initramfs -u 
> 
> wait untill its done ( takes a while ) then after that reboot 
> [/QUOTE]
> 
> Of course before you try it, you should backup /etc/usplash.conf and replace 
> the resolution in the file with the optimum ones for your monitor.
> 
> Will
>