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Ubutun 6.10: Display Resolution for IBM T30

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i do i install packages on my system

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

Go to Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal. In the resulting box type the following command:-

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

It will ask for *your* password which will not be echoed to the screen.

Follow the on screen dialogs to configure the video card. Early on it asks what video adapter you have - select ATI. Part way through it asks what screen resolutions you wish to use. Choose the appropriate ones for your display. You can tick muliple resolutions so that you can (for example) use a different resolution if you are using an external display. Most of the rest of the questions you can leave as default.

When finished it will create a new config file for x windows called /etc/X11/xorg.conf. To make this take effect you can restart X (and thus close all open GUI apps) by pressing CTRL+ALT+Backspace.

Let us know how you get on.

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cdma (jferro) said : 		#2

Hi Alan,

Was able to go trough the configuration and add the two other resolutions I wanted, however, after the re-boot I still seem to have the original configuration, not sure if the new one is taking effect... I followed with CTRL+ALT+Backspace after the Terminal close and PC rebooted, but no changes seem to have happened.

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Roberto Rosario (roberto-rosario-gonzalez) said : 		#3

Go to "Display preferences" the resolutions you checked during the "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" should now be available for you to choose from.

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cdma (jferro) said : 		#4

I did check the "Display Preferences", but the new resolutions are not there. For some reason is not taking it.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#5

Much as it pains me to say this, the alternative might be to use the binary ATI driver as detailed here:-

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

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Best cdma (jferro) said : 		#6

Well, after researching the IBM website I finally figured it out, it was a limitation of the display itself. To my surprise, it can only go as high as 1024x768. Depending on the T30 configuration you get, you can get higher resolutions, but my particular T30 is limited to 1024x768.

Please consider this issue closed. Thank you to the ones that provided support and feedback.