geoffDeGeoffGeoff
November 9th, 2009, 06:51 AM
I have 3 apparently identical HP machines and monitors.
I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 on two of them with no problems.
On the third machine I have installed on the screen resolution is very big. Looking at System > Preferences > Display I only get 800 x 600 and 640 x 480 as options. 'Detect Display' doesn't do anything.
On the other 2 machines Preferences > Display shows "Hewlett Packard 17" and has 1440 x 900 (16:10) selected as the resolution. This is correct and looks great.
I tried swapping the monitors and re-installing Ubuntu on the dodgy pc but it made no difference.
What can I do to fix this problem as this pc is almost unusable at this resolution? I googled but a lot of the fixes were for pre-9.10 releases and involved xorg.conf which doesn't appear to be there any more.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 on two of them with no problems.
On the third machine I have installed on the screen resolution is very big. Looking at System > Preferences > Display I only get 800 x 600 and 640 x 480 as options. 'Detect Display' doesn't do anything.
On the other 2 machines Preferences > Display shows "Hewlett Packard 17" and has 1440 x 900 (16:10) selected as the resolution. This is correct and looks great.
I tried swapping the monitors and re-installing Ubuntu on the dodgy pc but it made no difference.
What can I do to fix this problem as this pc is almost unusable at this resolution? I googled but a lot of the fixes were for pre-9.10 releases and involved xorg.conf which doesn't appear to be there any more.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.