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Problem with display

Asked by Karthik. B

Currently i'm using ubuntu 5.04. But i'm getting problem with display. The look and feel of ubuntu desktop is somewhat ackward. The font and icons are displaying very big. When i open firefox or file manager, its almost occupying half of the screen. I'm left with little space for the webpage content or file manager contents. I thought its problem with screen resolution so i tried to change the screen resolution but i'm left with only one option 640x800.
I'm using Intel's extreem graphics 2 (82865G Graphics controller). I have no problem when using windows. Whats the solution for my problem.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

You might need to reconfigure the x window system to make it do different resolutions. To do that do the following:-

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

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

You should then get a screen which prompts you for various settings including the driver - which I believe is i810 for that video card, and later the screen resolution. Tick all the resolutions that you want to use.

Once finished it will save a new /etc/X11/xorg.conf - which is the configuration file for the x windows system. You will need to restart X for the changes to take effect. You can do this with the following command (note all graphical applications will be killed by this - so save any open work first):-

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

If x fails to start then you need to play with the xorg settings again. If the i810 driver doesn't work you could try the VESA driver instead.

I do not know for sure if the 82865G card is supported by 5.04, if not, you may want to consider an upgrade to 6.06 or 6.10.

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Karthik. B (karthik-bhuvana) said : 		#2

I followed what you said. But in middle when it asked about "DRI" ( i don't remembered exactly) with options "yes" and "no" i was redirected to blackscreen command line interface regardless of selecting "yes" or "no". In that black screen CLI, i was asked to login after that i don't know what to do and how to comeback to GUI. So forcebly restarted system.
    Following is the contents of xorg.conf file. There are different screen resolution modes but i left with only 640x480.

Section "Files"
 FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
 # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
 FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
 FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
 FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
 FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
 FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
 FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
 FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
 FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        # paths to defoma fonts
 FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
 FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
 Load "bitmap"
 Load "dbe"
 Load "ddc"
 Load "dri"
 Load "extmod"
 Load "freetype"
 Load "glx"
 Load "int10"
 Load "record"
 Load "type1"
 Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
 Driver "keyboard"
 Option "CoreKeyboard"
 Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
 Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
 Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Configured Mouse"
 Driver "mouse"
 Option "CorePointer"
 Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
 Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
 Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
 Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Device"
 Driver "i810"
 BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "StudioWorks"
 Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Device "Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Device"
 Monitor "StudioWorks"
 DefaultDepth 24
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 1
  Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x450" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 4
  Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x450" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 8
  Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x450" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 15
  Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x450" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 16
  Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x450" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 24
  Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x450" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
 Identifier "Default Layout"
 Screen "Default Screen"
 InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
 InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
 Mode 0666
EndSection

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Best Karthik. B (karthik-bhuvana) said : 		#3

Now the problem with screen resolution is solved without any glitches by following the simple steps:

   1. Launch a Terminal window by going applications > Terminal
   2. Type this at the command prompt:

          sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

   3. Find the text:

          Section "Monitor"

   4. Create the entries for "HorizSync" and "VertRefresh" each on a separate line with the values corresponding to your monitor.
      For example, I have a generic 17 inch monitor at 1024x768 and my section looks like this:

          Section "Monitor"
            Identifier "StudioWorks" # this is my monitor name
            Option "DPMS" # default options, leave these alone
            HorizSync 30-61 # horizontal refresh frequencies
            VertRefresh 50-120 # vertical refresh frequencies
          EndSection

   5. Reboot your computer and your resolution should be all set