cromestant
April 24th, 2008, 11:01 PM
Hello, I did a clean install of hardy heron, and all is fine except for the screen resolution.
I have 2 monitors and both detect as plug and play monitor, one is a samtron 98dp ( which I can actually fix by using another samtron monitor in the old config utility /usr/bin/display-config-gtk or somehting like it) but then I loose acces to my ctrl+alt+f# consoles...
The other monitor and the one I d really like to get going is a Dell 2007 wfp, through the VGA port
The option in the old config script for it exists, but when I select it I get the extended desktop ( the one that is bigger than your screen and you have to move your mouse around and it movs the screen...)
So i went to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and to my amazement, its very SMALL, its not like the old one that had a lot of screen options for resolution depth etc... nothing its very minimal ( i m not at that computer ATM so cant post it)
Is there a new file in hardy heron?? if so where is it.
Any advice on how to configure this properly, i tried https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FixVideoResolutionHowto and could not get it to work properly, installed 915resolution and did not do anything with it aftewards ( did not know where to run it),
my graphics dirver is a 2 year old intel chipset so pretty standard
by the way
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg asks only questions about keyboard layout, not about screen resoltuion like it used to....
thank you in advance
Charles
I have 2 monitors and both detect as plug and play monitor, one is a samtron 98dp ( which I can actually fix by using another samtron monitor in the old config utility /usr/bin/display-config-gtk or somehting like it) but then I loose acces to my ctrl+alt+f# consoles...
The other monitor and the one I d really like to get going is a Dell 2007 wfp, through the VGA port
The option in the old config script for it exists, but when I select it I get the extended desktop ( the one that is bigger than your screen and you have to move your mouse around and it movs the screen...)
So i went to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and to my amazement, its very SMALL, its not like the old one that had a lot of screen options for resolution depth etc... nothing its very minimal ( i m not at that computer ATM so cant post it)
Is there a new file in hardy heron?? if so where is it.
Any advice on how to configure this properly, i tried https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FixVideoResolutionHowto and could not get it to work properly, installed 915resolution and did not do anything with it aftewards ( did not know where to run it),
my graphics dirver is a 2 year old intel chipset so pretty standard
by the way
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg asks only questions about keyboard layout, not about screen resoltuion like it used to....
thank you in advance
Charles