screen resolution

[Brendan Strunk]

Try reinstalling the OS and see what happens

> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:16:49 -0600
> From: k5di at zianet.com
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: screen resolution
> 
> NoOp wrote:
> > On 06/05/2008 03:12 AM, Daryn Hanright wrote:
> >   
> >> * Kelly Alford <alford_kell at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> After having upgraded to ubuntu 8.04 I am not able to get greater
> >>> screen resolution than 800 by 600 screen resolution so the web
> >>> pages are too big to fit on my screen. I want to be able to see the
> >>> entire web page like I did in version fiesty fawn.
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> I have exactly the same problem. Was running 1680x1050 fine on Gutsy.
> >>  But now its stuck on 800x600. Cannot increase it.
> >>
> >> Have tried so many different options after googling to try & get it
> >> to work to no avail.
> >>
> >> My card in a Nvidia GeForce4 (old I know).
> >>
> >> Have tried the new Screen Resolution, displayconfig-gtk,
> >> nvidia-xconfig, manually editing old /etc/X11/xorg.conf etc etc.
> >>
> >> The restricted drivers are enabled fine (using nvidia-glx). Have been
> >>  using Ubuntu since the early days, but this one has me stumped!
> >>
> >> Am using a 22" Acer AL2216W LCD screen.
> >>     
> >
> > I just installed that card on one of my systems in order to get compiz
> > working on that computer (on board is Intel 82815). I also initially had
> > problems with the resolution. The solution for me:
> >
> > - reboot and select the recovery mode
> > - select the last option to xfix
> > - select the first option to resume
> >
> > You can also check using xrandr to see if it's picking up your 1680x1050
> >
> > man xrandr
> >
> > [OT] Only problem that I have now is that I no longer have sound on that
> > when booting into 2.6.24-18-386 - sound does work w/2.6.24-18-generic
> >
> >
> >   
>     I guess that I have never heard of xrandr! That is amazing because 
> it seems to be just what a person lacking screen resolution needs! I 
> have a version of 7.10 that went to minimum resolution just like so many 
> others have. I tried all I knew which was just bad.
> 
>     Now back to the old 7.10 that is broken and see what it says. Here 
> is my current great working 7.10 looks like:
> 
> karl at karl-desktop:~$ man xrandr
> karl at karl-desktop:~$ xrandr -q
> Screen 0: minimum 248 x 240, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
> default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
>    1280x1024      50.0*    56.0 
>    1280x960       51.0 
>    1024x768       52.0     60.0     61.0 
>    832x624        53.0 
>    800x600        54.0     64.0     65.0     66.0     67.0 
>    640x480        55.0     72.0     73.0     74.0     75.0 
>    1280x800       57.0 
>    1280x768       58.0 
>    1152x864       59.0 
>    960x600        62.0 
>    840x525        63.0 
>    800x512        68.0 
>    720x450        69.0 
>    640x512        70.0     71.0 
>    640x400        76.0 
>    640x384        77.0 
>    576x432        78.0 
>    512x384        79.0     80.0     81.0 
>    416x312        82.0 
>    400x300        83.0     84.0     85.0     86.0 
>    320x240        87.0     88.0     89.0 
>    248x248        90.0 
> karl at karl-desktop:~$
> 
> This is data you must have to fix your xorg files. And xrandr can fix 
> the problems, see man xrander.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
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