If the issue is that you are not offered a higher screen resolution than 800X600, have a look at the thread 'Display adapter and screen resolution' which I just went through and marked 'solved' last...
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If the issue is that you are not offered a higher screen resolution than 800X600, have a look at the thread 'Display adapter and screen resolution' which I just went through and marked 'solved' last...
I have now made the same changes in the installed distrib of 8.04 and all seems well. In short, I followed mapes12 instructions described above and used Edit Menus to make the Other/Screens and...
Also see thread...
Screen Resolution Stuck at 800x600
Check out the following threads.
Display adapter and screen resolution
and
lost screen resolution Ubuntu 8.04
The information seems to be that 8.10 isn't allowing users to manually configure...
I have just had an interesting result. After going through a number of threads regarding screen resolution, I realized the problem or bug is not just with Compaq. A lot of different adapters, etc.,...
This is the same problem I am working through with the assistance of others on this Forum. I am experiencing it on a older Compaq running Ubuntu 8.04 and may be a bug of that distrib regarding this...
Okay, covering some of the questions:
I have downloaded and am now running live CD in 8.10.
I didn't update the 8.04 installation, however, I am having some similar issues in 8.10.
When I go...
I'm am not getting the options outlined in the following instructions:
When I go follow to the point of selecting Screen and Graphics in the R/H column (by double clicking) it opens the...
I am running 8.04, not 8.10. I just ran the same distrib live off the CD and tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg and it returned the same error message about battery.
I am having the same problem on a PC clone with an Xpert 98 AGP 2X adapter. You might check out the Thread "Display adapter and screen resolution" currently running in this Forum to see if any of the...
Here you are:
don@Compaq:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP...
No change after re-boot.
I ran that command and here is the result:
don@Compaq:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised configuration
file; backup in...
Here is the line that now resides in the Boot Options:
# kopt=root=UUID=2750596e-d7ad-4ed1-9504-e94f40bbb3c5 ro noacpi
I did not know what steps you wanted me to redo in the reconfigure of my...
I thought I should check with you again about putting tabs before the lines in the config file. When I run gedit, it appears every line other than 'Section' and 'Endsection' have a <tab> at the...
Here is the relevant section of the config file after making the changes and rebooting:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Viewsonic GS771"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-160
Modeline...
Okay, I made the modification and am about to reboot. Incidentally, your post isn't showing up in the thread. The only way I have been able to access it is by finding the thread topic and clicking...
Also, I noticed the display 'screen' in the screen resolution setting window still shows 'unknown'. I don't know if that indicates it is not reading the setting on bootup or not. Lastly, when I...
I believe I followed the instructions correctly. This is the contents of the config file after I rebooted (I reopened the editor and copied the contents).
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System...
When I rebooted in Recovery Mode and ran XFix, it returned (I believe) the same Error message I posted when running the earlier command in Terminal.
Here is the contents of xorg.conf
#...
I posted the line in Terminal and it returned this message.
xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised configuration
file; backup in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20090101112008
FATAL:...
When I look at Hardware Drivers, none are listed, restricted or enabled. Does this mean I need to download-install a driver? Being a complete newbie to Ubuntu and Linux, I have no idea how to do...
Can someone offer advice for changing screen resolution? I have just installed Ubuntu on a separate hard drive in an older Compaq desktop with 256 M RAM, Pentium III 400 Mhz. The display type (?)...