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Try reinstalling the OS and see what happens<br><br>> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:16:49 -0600<br>> From: k5di@zianet.com<br>> To: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br>> Subject: Re: screen resolution<br>> <br>> NoOp wrote:<br>> > On 06/05/2008 03:12 AM, Daryn Hanright wrote:<br>> > <br>> >> * Kelly Alford <alford_kell@yahoo.com> wrote:<br>> >><br>> >> <br>> >>> After having upgraded to ubuntu 8.04 I am not able to get greater<br>> >>> screen resolution than 800 by 600 screen resolution so the web<br>> >>> pages are too big to fit on my screen. I want to be able to see the<br>> >>> entire web page like I did in version fiesty fawn.<br>> >>><br>> >>> <br>> >> I have exactly the same problem. Was running 1680x1050 fine on Gutsy.<br>> >> But now its stuck on 800x600. Cannot increase it.<br>> >><br>> >> Have tried so many different options after googling to try & get it<br>> >> to work to no avail.<br>> >><br>> >> My card in a Nvidia GeForce4 (old I know).<br>> >><br>> >> Have tried the new Screen Resolution, displayconfig-gtk,<br>> >> nvidia-xconfig, manually editing old /etc/X11/xorg.conf etc etc.<br>> >><br>> >> The restricted drivers are enabled fine (using nvidia-glx). Have been<br>> >> using Ubuntu since the early days, but this one has me stumped!<br>> >><br>> >> Am using a 22" Acer AL2216W LCD screen.<br>> >> <br>> ><br>> > I just installed that card on one of my systems in order to get compiz<br>> > working on that computer (on board is Intel 82815). I also initially had<br>> > problems with the resolution. The solution for me:<br>> ><br>> > - reboot and select the recovery mode<br>> > - select the last option to xfix<br>> > - select the first option to resume<br>> ><br>> > You can also check using xrandr to see if it's picking up your 1680x1050<br>> ><br>> > man xrandr<br>> ><br>> > [OT] Only problem that I have now is that I no longer have sound on that<br>> > when booting into 2.6.24-18-386 - sound does work w/2.6.24-18-generic<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > <br>> I guess that I have never heard of xrandr! That is amazing because <br>> it seems to be just what a person lacking screen resolution needs! I <br>> have a version of 7.10 that went to minimum resolution just like so many <br>> others have. I tried all I knew which was just bad.<br>> <br>> Now back to the old 7.10 that is broken and see what it says. Here <br>> is my current great working 7.10 looks like:<br>> <br>> karl@karl-desktop:~$ man xrandr<br>> karl@karl-desktop:~$ xrandr -q<br>> Screen 0: minimum 248 x 240, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024<br>> default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm<br>> 1280x1024 50.0* 56.0 <br>> 1280x960 51.0 <br>> 1024x768 52.0 60.0 61.0 <br>> 832x624 53.0 <br>> 800x600 54.0 64.0 65.0 66.0 67.0 <br>> 640x480 55.0 72.0 73.0 74.0 75.0 <br>> 1280x800 57.0 <br>> 1280x768 58.0 <br>> 1152x864 59.0 <br>> 960x600 62.0 <br>> 840x525 63.0 <br>> 800x512 68.0 <br>> 720x450 69.0 <br>> 640x512 70.0 71.0 <br>> 640x400 76.0 <br>> 640x384 77.0 <br>> 576x432 78.0 <br>> 512x384 79.0 80.0 81.0 <br>> 416x312 82.0 <br>> 400x300 83.0 84.0 85.0 86.0 <br>> 320x240 87.0 88.0 89.0 <br>> 248x248 90.0 <br>> karl@karl-desktop:~$<br>> <br>> This is data you must have to fix your xorg files. And xrandr can fix <br>> the problems, see man xrander.<br>> <br>> Karl<br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> <br>> Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI<br>> Linux User<br>> #450462 http://counter.li.org.<br>> PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7<br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> ubuntu-users mailing list<br>> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users<br><br /><hr />Search that pays you back! Introducing Live Search cashback. <a href='http://search.live.com/cashback/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=srchpaysyouback' target='_new'>Search Now!</a></body>
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