8.10 Screen Resolution Intrepid

**catflea** · November 2nd, 2008

I'm having problems with the autodetecting of my monitor..

is there any way to force the screen resolution in Intrepid? This is doing my head in!

**NawaMan** · November 2nd, 2008

Would you give more detail? What exactly is the problem?

**acm321** · November 2nd, 2008

Is the xserver properly configured?

**catflea** · November 2nd, 2008

I have an LG 19" CRT which was recognised the first time I installed 8.10 automatically set 1600x1200 - which is my preferred res.

However on running the update manager it seemed to lose this info and could not find the monitor again. After much mucking around I ended up losing picture completely and did a clean install.

On a clean install the monitor still isn't recognised! I have no idea if xserver is configured, and I wouldn't know how to check!

I'm not a complete idiot but don't tend to get too involved with the "system" stuff. It used to be that you could edit xorg.conf to give the option to run a certain screen resolution. But that doesn't seem to work anymore!

**overdrank** · November 2nd, 2008

Originally Posted by catflea

I have an LG 19" CRT which was recognised the first time I installed 8.10 automatically set 1600x1200 - which is my preferred res.

However on running the update manager it seemed to lose this info and could not find the monitor again. After much mucking around I ended up losing picture completely and did a clean install.

On a clean install the monitor still isn't recognised! I have no idea if xserver is configured, and I wouldn't know how to check!

I'm not a complete idiot but don't tend to get too involved with the "system" stuff. It used to be that you could edit xorg.conf to give the option to run a certain screen resolution. But that doesn't seem to work anymore!

Ok what is the model of the graphics card?
Have you tried booting into recovery mode and use the xfix option to correct the graphics?