Changing Screen Resolution

[Michael "TheZorch" Haney]

San Goldberger wrote:
> Just Installed Ubuntu, very impressed so far. But having trouble 
> changing my screen resolution to somthing normale.  Just after 
> installing Ubuntu it was fine untill I downloaded all the updates and 
> driver for my Nvidia graphics card. Since restart system has been 
> teribble to work with. Under SYSTEM PREFRENCES, Screen Resolution, it 
> only gives me an option up to 640x480 Max
>
> Please any help will be appriciated.
I switched to Kubuntu because of this same issue.  There is no easy way 
to correct the problem in Ubuntu as Gnome's screen resolution settings 
don't allow you choose what kind of monitor you are using.  KDE does.  
This is where the problem lies.  Actually, its also to do with AMD's 
drivers which seem to only work properly only the latest and greatest 
Geforce cards.  For some reason the X.org graphics subsystems going 
through the Nvidia drivers can't figure out what monitor you are using 
so it uses Default Monitor as a safe setting.  Unfortunately this locks 
your resolution to 640x480.  I tried many ways to fix this problem but 
couldn't find an easy solution.  After trying Kubuntu with KDE I found 
that I could still select what monitor I had manually thus I don't have 
this problem.  This really needs to be addressed by the Ubuntu 
development community because quite a number of people in this group 
have had this problem.

If you don't want to switch to Kubuntu there is a way you might be able 
to fix this problem but its not easy.  You need to shutdown X.org and 
use this text command...

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Just choose the default settings until you get the graphics settings, 
here you'll be able to input the type of monitor that you have.  Others 
on this list should be able to give you more detailed instructions.



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