<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> NoOp wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:g9q39i$88q$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Nothing is foolproof; I'd recommend right-clicking Applications then select "Edit Menus", and under "Other" check the box for "Screens and Graphics". </pre> </blockquote> 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? -- Charles Rathbone <blockquote cite="mid:g9q39i$88q$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 09/04/2008 05:38 PM, Burgoo King wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Greetings and thanks in advance for assistance. In a nutshell, what is the easiest and most foolproof way for me to change my screen resolution from 1680x1050 to a more readable 1280x768? The resolution that I want is not offered as a choice in the drop-down list under System>Preferences>Screen Resolution. I've installed hardy-heron which seems to work well except for the screen resolution. My home-made desktop computer has an Intel 82865G (i810) graphics adapter on the motherboard. The monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster 204BW 20" flat-screen TFT-LCD monitor. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Nothing is foolproof; I'd recommend right-clicking Applications then select "Edit Menus", and under "Other" check the box for "Screens and Graphics". Exit the menu editor and then bring up Applications|Other|Screens and Graphics. Select your monitor (Model drop down), Samsung|204... and click OK. Select the resolution & frequency then click OK. *Do not* mess with anything else (Graphics Card etc). Log out and then log back in & see if that works. If it does not, or if it makes things worse, then boot in recovery mode and select the 4th option to try xfix. Let xfix do it's thing & then select option 1 to continue to boot normally. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>