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Thread: screen resolution

  1. #1
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    screen resolution

    I recently installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my laptop and the graphics card was labeled a "restricted driver". It installed fine and the screen resolution is fine on the desktop but at the logon screen, the resolution is set to something lower like 640x480 or something. Is there any way to change this?

  2. #2
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    Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

    Re: screen resolution

    Can you still see the panel? If you can, go System...> Preferences...>Screen Resolution. If it's not under that, try under Screens and Graphics (again under System > Preferences)

    I think...
    James (Registered Ubuntu User #19236)

    iMac G3 350Mhz Summer 2000, running Debian Squeeze
    Compaq Presario
    M2000 running Ubuntu Jaunty


  3. #3
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    Ubuntu Development Release

    Re: screen resolution

    open terminal and:
    Code:
    sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

  4. #4
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    Re: screen resolution

    I tried the sudo command and it let me pick a graphics card model and resolution for that config file. After I reboot to test it, Ubuntu will not load the GUI. I tried to log in from the command line and run startx but it comes back with:

    fatal server error
    no screens found
    X10: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0:0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

    Any ideas????

  5. #5
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    Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (testing)

    Re: screen resolution

    Oh my... Unfortunately I cannot suggest anything, but this should be a lesson for some posters here. While you may be trying to help, sometime your methods can be detrimental. Preferably we should all be following the 'kiss' procedure. There was no reason to reconfigure the entire x server just to change the resolution.

  6. #6
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    Hardy Heron (Ubuntu Development)

    Re: screen resolution

    <Ctrl><Left-Alt><F1> to change to a virtual terminal

    to back up the settings kinda file use
    sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup

    if anything goes wrong use this to replace
    sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

    use this to change the settings
    sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
    überN00b

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