<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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: <blockquote cite="mid:g9uuc5$bg7$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 09/05/2008 09:32 PM, Burgoo King wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">NoOp wrote: </pre> <blockquote 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> <pre wrap="">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? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monitors/samsung-syncmaster-204bw/4507-3174_7-32081063.html"><http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monitors/samsung-syncmaster-204bw/4507-3174_7-32081063.html></a> 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. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>