smilinggeek
March 2nd, 2009, 05:44 PM
I have an Acer Aspire 5100 running Ubuntu 8.10
Everything works fine right out of the box - wireless, screen, sound, etc. Heck, it even worked fine off the liveCD (which is why I chose Ubuntu, as it was the only distro that did so).
Problem:
It only offers 4 resolutions under System->Preferences->Screen Resolution
640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x800.
I'd like to add more resolutions, since this monitor can handle more and what's available isn't adequate.
I've tried the following:
1) sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
2) booting to recovery and using xfix
Both just return after calling them, do not allow any user interaction, and both do absolutely nothing to my xorg.conf configuration file.
The xorg.conf file remains as follows:
-------------------- cut here ----------------------
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
------------------------ cut here --------------------
It seems that xorg.conf isn't used anymore to set resolutions?
How can I add resolutions to my "Screen Resolutions" options on this laptop? Is there a tool, somewhere, that will allow me to add to the available resolutions?
Note: I have not installed the ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver using System->HardwareDrivers. Apart from the resolution issue, the graphics are working just fine for me without it.
Everything works fine right out of the box - wireless, screen, sound, etc. Heck, it even worked fine off the liveCD (which is why I chose Ubuntu, as it was the only distro that did so).
Problem:
It only offers 4 resolutions under System->Preferences->Screen Resolution
640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x800.
I'd like to add more resolutions, since this monitor can handle more and what's available isn't adequate.
I've tried the following:
1) sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
2) booting to recovery and using xfix
Both just return after calling them, do not allow any user interaction, and both do absolutely nothing to my xorg.conf configuration file.
The xorg.conf file remains as follows:
-------------------- cut here ----------------------
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
------------------------ cut here --------------------
It seems that xorg.conf isn't used anymore to set resolutions?
How can I add resolutions to my "Screen Resolutions" options on this laptop? Is there a tool, somewhere, that will allow me to add to the available resolutions?
Note: I have not installed the ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver using System->HardwareDrivers. Apart from the resolution issue, the graphics are working just fine for me without it.