Installing ubuntu first time. Screen res choices only 800 600

Hi, what kind/brand/model of computer do you have?

Thanks for answer!

K7S5A is printed on the main board probably ECS manufacturer. Athlon processor 1,5 ghz maybe 4 years old. Also a not so old, probably e Radeon graphic card, earlier mounted in a Siemens PC

The Ubuntu first time user.

To know your hardware you can do in a shell

lspci

and post the result.

Thanks

Make sure if the frecuency of your monitor is right setting in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
vertical refresh and horizontal refresh, and the resolution have the option that you trying to change.
The frecuency of your monitor is in the manual of it.
Hope you understand me, and can fix that

PD.: sorry about my english, please forgive me

in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf I dont find a choice for horizontal and vertical refresh : typical:

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Device "ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE]"
 Monitor "PKB MAE220W"
 DefaultDepth 24
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 1
  Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x1440"

My PC Spesification is more exact: (lspci)

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 735 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
00:09.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
00:09.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
00:09.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
00:0f.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)

Thanks Joho:)

In the "Monitor" section of your xorg.conf, add the following line:

Modeline "1920x1200" 154 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209 1235

and see if it changes it.

Thanks for the answer!

My knowledge to system problems is not great. I have altered the file. but I do not manage to get the permission to save the file, (I am the adinistrator)

In any way, my PC have now booted up two times with the ability to change the resolution to 1680 1050! Maybe it has something to do with my screen, mouse and keypad switch (Belkin) to my Siemens combined Ubuntu/Windows computer (for the last to boots my combined Ubuntu/Windows computer has been shut down). When I now booted combined Ubuntu/Windows computer. I did not have all the choices og different resolutions. So at last I think it must be the Belkin svitch causing the problem.

I will tell you if I changes my opinion about that later.

Thanks so much for the help! (I was not able to save the xorg.conf file, so I will stuggle more along with Ubuntu tomorrow)

Joho :)

You can sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and follow the instructions. At some time it will ask you to choose between possible resolutions to be available.

To change some file configuration in ubuntu/kubuntu you can use the comand "sudo" on a shell. For example to change your xorg.conf in Ubuntu 7.04 you must do:

open a shell

in a shell edit:

$: sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

inset the password asked

thanks

Thanks for answers !!!!.

My knowlwdge to shell edit is not good. Root privileges is not my force. I think I give up. Temporarely...

Jojo:)

Jojo all ok, we can continue if you want. Thanks