Foolproof fix for screen resolution?

[Burgoo King]

Again, thanks for the suggestions.

I've tired editing the xorg.conf file many times now. The system seems 
to be very fond of 800x600. That's what I almost always get, no matter 
what resolution I think I'm configuring for.

Sometimes the result is a huge desktop that is much larger than the 
screen, and that i can scroll around on, but the screen proportions are 
still the same as with 800x600.

I'll keep playing with it and will send a follow-up message if I get the 
desired screen resolution of 1280x768, or more precisely a 1.6 ratio 
between width and height.

-- Charles Rathbone



NoOp wrote:
> On 09/05/2008 09:32 PM, Burgoo King wrote:
>   
>> NoOp wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Nothing is foolproof; I'd recommend right-clicking Applications then
>>> select "Edit Menus", and under "Other" check the box for "Screens and
>>> Graphics". 
>>>       
>> This is a promising approach but it has not worked.  I keep ending up 
>> with an 800x600 screen regardless of what selections I make, even when I 
>> was able to select the desired 1280x768.  A couple of combinations of 
>> screen resolution, etc. resulted in a huge desktop, much bigger than the 
>> screen, but mostly it goes to 800x600.
>>
>> After about 40 tries, I've rebooted to recovery mode and got back to 
>> 1680x1050, which has the right screen proportions but is hard for me to 
>> read.
>>
>> Thank you for the suggestion...any other ideas for how to get 1280x768?
>>     
>
> If you go back to the 'Applications|Other|Screens and Graphics' and
> reset the resolution there it will create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for
> you like the old Gutsy xorg.conf's. From there you may be able to modify
> to get a proper 1280x768. In particular, look in the 'Section "Screen"'
> and 'Virtual'; make sure it is set to 1280 768. Note: look in 'Modes'
> directly underneath that to make sure you also have 1280x768@<frequency>
> where <frequency> is the proper frequency for your monitor. According to
> this:
>
> <http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monitors/samsung-syncmaster-204bw/4507-3174_7-32081063.html>
>
> the max resolution is  1680 x 1050 / 60 Hz but the Max Sync rates are
> 75 Hz x 81 KHz.
>
> Over the past few days I've been rebuilding some discarded (recycled)
> Windows computers & in the process I would find that if I set a high
> 1024x768 rate for the monitor I was using the fonts would be blurry at
> 85hz, but would come in clear as could be at 75hz. So, try a few
> combinations to see if you can get the right one.
>
>
>   
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