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Unable to reset display size after change to 10.10

Asked by Robert Brady

I recently upgraded to 10.10 and have had no problems other than am now unable to change the size of the monitor display. i had a selection between two sizes on the old version of Ubuntu.

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Jeruvy (jeruvy) said : 		#1

Could you provide more information, like the video card you are using, monitors, etc. Also what resolutions do you get, and what resolutions are you missing?

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Robert Brady (acronym54) said : 		#2

Graphics Card:
 description: VGA compatible controller
             product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
             configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
             resources: irq:16 memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:ff680000-ff6fffff
Monitor is a Samsung Synchmaster 170MP
1280x1024 is currently running. I would like to run it at about 1000 wide.
Thanks

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Best Jeruvy (jeruvy) said : 		#3

Thanks for the info,

I found this old thread, but it looks relevant:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=256470

Reviewing the monitor it is a standard VGA 17", and 1280 x 1024 is max.

Given that this is onboard video/Intel chipset you may consider the BIOS options to see if this fixes your issue, or if you need to modify the xorg properties. Compare your xorg with the one listed.

The documentation about xorg.conf and xorg.conf.d/ configs can be found here in the section under Xorg:

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

HTH's.

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Robert Brady (acronym54) said : 		#4

I've been using the current screen size for several weeks now, and have gotten used to it. I don't think I would change back now even if I could. Funny how things sometime work themselves out.

Thanks for your help.