Need to add higher screen resolutions
I just installed Ubuntu 10.01 on my very old Asus P4S533MX Motherboard with built in video. Only shows max video of 800x600 and I know monitor/board capable of at least 1028 x 780 I've tried to read through threads on this subject but nervous about adding/editing Xorg.conf file with correct code information specific to my graphic driver. I did get output of following when running "sudo lshw -C display" on Terminal. Can't seem to find any Linux drivers on Asus site for this Mobo.
Can someone give me the correct code to input into Xorg.conf?
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
resources: memory:
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- Mark Mueller
- Solved:
- 2011-02-12
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter"
Driver "sis"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Plug and play"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-69
VertRefresh 50-120
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter"
Monitor "Plug and play"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Run:
gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
add the text above to the file, save the new file and reboot. If you get no desktop, reboot and hold shift, select recovery mode then select root then run:
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/
And you will be back where you are
Mark Mueller (msmueller) said : | #2 |
Actionparsnip:
Brilliant! Your instructions were perfect and I was able to increase my resolution to the highest option. Thank you for your fast and succinct response to my questions.
Good day...
ok cool, basically your monitor sucks and isn't giving EDID like it's supposed to. Usually udev picks stuff up but your system isn't getting the information it needs, so you need to tell it.
I STRONGLY advise you make a copy of that file somewhere off your PC. If you need to reinstall you can just copy back the file.