lost monitor settings now running at lowest resolution

Hi,

Sorry no-one else has got back to you sooner.

Do you have an Ubuntu Cd and can you boot it up to a LiveCd session?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

Please let us know if this first stp woks or else we will have to find a way around it.
Regards from
Tom :)

have a cd but dont seem to be able to boot from it , for some reason ubuntu has never been able to work my built in cd rom, i have been using an external dvd , i cannot get it to boot from this , maybe i am doing something wrong,
i desperately need to get the screen resolution back to what i need as my machine is totally unusable .
i have had to resort to an old machine with windows on it and its realy pissing me of already. how anyone can use windows i realy dont know its so crap compared with ubuntu, apart from ubuntu is far to hard to set up , i could normally manage to sort any problems with xp , but still struggle with ubuntu when it goes wrong.
i would never go back to windows , suppose i will eventually learn more about ubuntu as i go .
anyway desperately need help in sorting this screen resolution problem quickly. Thanks Andrew

Hi

I am sorry but i don't know any quick fixes either. Please can you re-post this question because it's already quite old and launchpad doesn't have a good way of dealing with old questions
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+addquestion
Hopefully it would slip through the net again. It's also worth asking at
http://www.linuxquestions.org
because this looks like more of a wider linux issue and might not need a specifically ubuntu response. Asking in both forums is valid, especially if you post a link to the first correct answer in the other forum(s). That helps spread the knowledge which helps.

This signpost guide might also be helpful
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Signpost/Questions#help

Apols and regards from
Tom :)

Hi again

There is a kind of wall with Ubuntu and linux until you break through it it's difficult to imagine how anyone can understand any of it and after you have broken through you wonder how anyone cant quite get it. I kinda dance along that line sometimes and keep falling on the wrong side of it. Sound and graphics are the 2 major stumbling blocks for linux at the moment but both are improving, especially graphics.

Please let the new question know which kind of graphics card you are using. Is it Ati or nVidia? I guess you have tried going back to the old lead you used to use? Could this be a monitor issue. I have sometimes found that changing leads means messing with quite a few controls on the monitor itself but i am going a loooong way back in time there. I seem to remember the monitors user guide was marginally useful.

Also it would be good to know the computer's specs. The cpu speed, ram size and amount of hard-drive space given to Ubuntu can sometimes help understand what's going on.

Is it possible to plug your main machine into the old machine's monitor?

When you normally boot up is there just 1 option for booting into Ubuntu and 1 for Windows or are there quite a few options for Ubuntu?

The Ubuntu Cd you use, have you been able to check the md5sum for it?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

I am quite happy to keep working on this problem in this thread but really think it would be a good move to re-post the question in a few places, and in here as a new question. Hopefully someone who really knows their graphics stuff might bump into it at the front-desk as it arrives or soon after.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)