[olug] ubuntu screen res

[Tim & Alethea Larson]

Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
> I decided to give Ubuntu a whirl.  It makes lots of things easy, so you 
> don't have to tinker with configuration files, but OTOH it's one more 
> abstraction layer that's easily broken.
> 
> That seems to be the case now.  The GUI won't let me change the 
> resolution above 1024, even though I selected 1152 to be a valid mode 
> when I was doing the install.  I checked the Xorg config file, and 1152 
> 1024 800 640 are the options for every color depth.  So it ought to be 
> there, but it's not.  Google found a suggestion to rerun one of the dpkg 
> configuration steps for the X server package, which I did, without success.
> 
> Any Ubuntu users out there that can give advice?

Well it turns out the Nvidia driver just didn't like that resolution, I 
guess.  The monitor handles it fine in Windows, but Ubuntu's probing 
doesn't grok it.  I selected one res higher as an option, and that works 
fine.

Tim

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Tim & Alethea
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