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Screen Resolution

Asked by David Landreth

I just installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my computer. The screen resolution is set at 800x600 I need 1024x768. I have tried reboots the ctrl+alt++. It is frustrating I have tried most of the suggestions but can't get it to work. I have tried the xorg.conf but still no luck am new to this so any help appreciated.
I also tried this
lspci
lsusb
sudo lshw
And got this don't know if this helps or not
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 04)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 05)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 05)
02:0d.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105 [Rhine-III] (rev 86)
david@Daves:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 043d:0072 Lexmark International, Inc. X6170 Printer
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

David

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said : 		#1

Hi David

Have you tried resetting it with System > Preferences > Screen Resolution.

What does this tell you about your monitor. Does it identify it (mine says HP 17"). Click on detect displays. Does this do anything?

You could also try (in a terminal)

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

to manually reconfigure your screen settings.

Tony

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David Landreth (dland4) said : 		#2

I tried that all that gives me is setup for the keyboard. System resolution is set at 800

David

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David Landreth (dland4) said : 		#3

I don't get it everybody says how great this is I'm ready to chuck it. All I want is to get the resolution set it should be simple but no one seems to have any answers I went through the documentation and that didn't help with no one to talk to this sucks.

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said : 		#4

Hi David

I know how you feel. I struggled with this problem when I upgraded from dapper. Have a look at

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FixVideoResolutionHowto

That gives some useful things to try and some useful links. Especially the section on undetected monitor specs (always supposing you have a monitor - you haven't told us the type, make and model of your computer)

One thing to do is to look in /etc/X11 at xorg.conf. My guess is that it is only a bare bones file with no data about screen resolutions. But are there any backup versions with more data?

You could try adding

 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 24
  Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
"640x480"
 EndSubSection

into the 'Screen' section. But before you start doing things like this, make sure that you can boot up in recovery mode in case your display gets totally screwed up. And always have a backup copy of your 'best' xorg.conf.

By the way, does this give you anything?

xrandr -q

Let us know how you get on.

Tony

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