purdurabo
May 25th, 2010, 03:32 AM
hello, peoples
its me again. i have posted a couple of time and you guys have been a big help, so maybe we can pull it off again.
here is the problem, a friend of mine just gave me a dell inspiron 2500 labtop. (i know, i know.) i installed 10.04 on it yesterday, and i cant change the resolution setting higher than 800x600. i know, not another one of these right? the funny thing is i wrote a how-to about doing this same thing. i had the same problem on my hp desk-top when i first installed 9.04 on it. i got that one, but this labtop is different for some reason.
on the hp i edited the xorg configuration file and it added 1024x768 to the options on the resolution changer. everything was cool.( for some reason when i updated to 10.04 i didn't need to change anything, even after a reinstall)
now on the dell labtop i can go through the motions and add the 1024x768 mode to the options list,but when i select it and click apply a notification bubble pops up and says,
"could not configure crtc 104"
when i try to set the mode from the terminal using
xrandr --output default --mode 1024x768_60.00
then the screen flashes and i get:
xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed
so if anyone can tell me why this labtop is acting different and what i can do to make it work, please fell free to lend a hand.
its me again. i have posted a couple of time and you guys have been a big help, so maybe we can pull it off again.
here is the problem, a friend of mine just gave me a dell inspiron 2500 labtop. (i know, i know.) i installed 10.04 on it yesterday, and i cant change the resolution setting higher than 800x600. i know, not another one of these right? the funny thing is i wrote a how-to about doing this same thing. i had the same problem on my hp desk-top when i first installed 9.04 on it. i got that one, but this labtop is different for some reason.
on the hp i edited the xorg configuration file and it added 1024x768 to the options on the resolution changer. everything was cool.( for some reason when i updated to 10.04 i didn't need to change anything, even after a reinstall)
now on the dell labtop i can go through the motions and add the 1024x768 mode to the options list,but when i select it and click apply a notification bubble pops up and says,
"could not configure crtc 104"
when i try to set the mode from the terminal using
xrandr --output default --mode 1024x768_60.00
then the screen flashes and i get:
xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed
so if anyone can tell me why this labtop is acting different and what i can do to make it work, please fell free to lend a hand.