Screen resolution loop [help!]

[Michael "TheZorch" Haney]

David Armour wrote:
> On my up-to-date Hardy machine (workhorse3), the LCD displays 1280 x 1024.
> Workhorse5, however, with the very same LCD(!) sets up at 640 x 480, and resists
> all efforts (mine, at least) to painlessly switch to higher resolutions. (See
> below.) A 640 x 480 resolution, admittedly, makes the numbers big & easy to
> read, but also unfortunately all-too-often sacrifices key bits (e.g.
> close/resize, scroll bars) to the nether-world off-screen.  
>
> Hoping to circumvent the hundreds of usual post-release up-dates, and perhaps
> gain the benefits of a new(-er), improved! Ubuntu, I kludgely downloaded
> 'Intrepid-Alpha6' and found 304 (!) up-dates waiting in the wings ... 
>
> Worse, once the system was supposedly 'up-to-date', and I had picked the
> 'recommended' Nvidia driver from the System>Hardware Drivers> drop-down, and
> pressed Crtl-Alt-Backspace "... to 'restart' X server", I got:
>       [screen goes black, with blinking cursor in top left corner]
> 	[requires cold re-boot]
>        restarting Ubuntu displays the loading 'thermometer', then a CLI screen
> with a log-in prompt too brief to complete, before returning to:		[screen goes
> black / requires cold re-boot] 
>
> ...which is where I had come in with the Hardy install.
>
> Workhorse5 also works fine at 1280x1024 with puppy-linux, but for now, I'm
> mostly interested in getting out of this Ubuntu log-in loop. Any ideas?
>
>
>   
There is a way to correct this but its not a fix I call it a 
"workaround" until a more permanent and graceful solution is devised.

Open a terminal window and type:

sudo displayconfig-gtk

The old display resolution dialog box from Ubuntu 7.10 will come up.  
You can adjust your monitor settings here by selecting your monitor's 
made and model from the list or choosing of the basic default monitor 
setting profiles.

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