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Stuck in low-resolution

Asked by Dylan

I just wanted to see what Ubuntu looked like in the lowest poswsibe resolution... And now I can't get to the Prefrences > Resolution .

Is there any keyboard shortcuts or anything to get it back to 1280X800 or whatever it was when I could actually see what I was doing on the screen?

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

please paste the output of

lspci

here and please mention ubuntu version that you are using..

regards

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Dylan (weasel-63) said : 		#2

Im using Ubuntu 8.10

And what is "Ispci"

Thanks

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Dylan (weasel-63) said : 		#3

Like I can't see the "System" menu at the top of the screen.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#4

run

applications -> other -> Screens and graphics

or look under

System > Preferences > Screen Resolution

and manually select the resolution (a higher one)

Regards

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Dylan (weasel-63) said : 		#5

Yeah but I cant see the menus to do this. All I can see on the top of the screen is my name and an volume icon.

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Best Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#6

Please try to press CTRL+ALT+"+" and/or CTRL+ALT+"-" to dynamically change video frequency
or press CTRL+ALT+BKSPACE to restart graphics layer.

Reconfiguring your xserver-xorg may help you.

A) If you can view graphics Gnome desktop

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal
and jump to step C

B) If you cannot view graphics Gnome desktop

Please press CTRL+ALT+F2 and make login with your user and password
and go on to step C

C)

To make a backup copy of your actual /etc/X11/xorg.conf type:

cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.bak

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then try to reconfigure your xserver-xorg

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

answer to the simple questions, then restart the pc.

If something goes wrong you can restore the saved copy of your old configuration, open a terminal or login to a virtual terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+F2 and type:

cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf.bak xorg.conf

and restart the pc, type:

sudo reboot

Hope it helps

Bhavani Shankar.

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Dylan (weasel-63) said : 		#7

Thanks Bhavani Shankar, that solved my question.