Display resolution probelm..

[rahilm]

Ok this is a very old problem, something i didn't care about solving until now.
Back when i was new to ubuntu ..which was 8.04.. i had set my display resolution as 1280x1024.
Then I installed 8.10 (clean) and set the resolution to 1280x1024
But suddenly, for no reasons that i could recall the resolution went back to 640x480.
I went to display preferences to change it back to 1280x1024 but was surprised to see that the option wasn't available!!
I can go as far as 1152x864 (4:3) and 1360x768 (16:9).
I ignored it as 1152 was enough then
I thought I may have accidentally edited some configuration file
Then I installed 9.04 (after formatting the drive and doing a clean install).
But surprisingly, 1280x1024 is still not available.
I don't get it.
Nothing has changed since 8.04, no hardware changes , no replacements. Still ubuntu now fails to recognize that my monitor can display 1280x768.

I don't have any ATI or NVIDIA card installed , all there is, is the on board intel card (128mb i gues... i don't know how to check it)

Windows XP that i had all along can go beyond 1280x1024. I tried puppy linux. Even puppy could go to 1280x1024

What's wrong with Ubuntu, and how can i fix it???

[grizato]

I don't know if this is the same problem but a while back I had Kubuntu and it had the same problem so I unplugged the power cable for a minute and put it back in again and it seemed to work.

Another fix would be to go onto the ubuntu fixig thing at startup(press ESC to eneter the menu.. 5,4...), I vaguely remember there being an option somewher to 'fix graphics poblems', I hope this helps!

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grizato
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[rahilm]

No it doesn't help

[Anonymousable]

What is your graphics card, and which drivers are you using? The drivers are the most common source of problems like this.

[dylan_newb]

try looking at this
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution

[rahilm]

What is your graphics card, and which drivers are you using? The drivers are the most common source of problems like this.

I don't know. As is said my PC doesn't have NVIDIA for sure. no ATI.. It is on borad intel.. I don't know how to check it ( in windows i do 'dxdiag')

I installed nothing nothing related to my graphic driver . Everything works out of the box (Even compiz-fusion effects works perfectly) except the resolution issue.

But how come 8.04 was able to get 1280x1024 but 8.10 and 9.04 can't.

[carml]

Enter this command in your terminal to know what your graphic card is

 lspci | grep VGA

[rahilm]

Enter this command in your terminal to know what your graphic card is

 lspci | grep VGA

Here's the output
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82946GZ/GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

[ctult]

I had the same problem.

[rahilm]

My 9.10 Live-CD does not contain the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file..
Is this normal??