[olug] ubuntu screen res

[Matthew D. McCain Platte]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 07:18 -0600, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
> I decided to give Ubuntu a whirl.  It makes lots of things easy, so you 
> don't have to tinker with configuration files, but OTOH it's one more 
> abstraction layer that's easily broken.
> 
> That seems to be the case now.  The GUI won't let me change the 
> resolution above 1024, even though I selected 1152 to be a valid mode 
> when I was doing the install.  I checked the Xorg config file, and 1152 
> 1024 800 640 are the options for every color depth.  So it ought to be 
> there, but it's not.  Google found a suggestion to rerun one of the dpkg 
> configuration steps for the X server package, which I did, without success.
> 
> Any Ubuntu users out there that can give advice?

Be glad that you get 1024 since I usually experience this situation
stuck at 640x480!

However, I have sort of the opposite situation on my regular
workstation.  Even though there are only six modes listed in xorg.conf
(below) there are these six plus eleven additional choices in System ->
Preferences -> Screen Resolution, most of which are the weird numbers
like 928x696.

Like you said, it appears that the pretty interface isn't just reporting
on or utilizing what's in xorg.conf. I'm still seeking education or
explanation.  Occasionally I try #ubuntu IRC but it's kinda noisy in
there.

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Matthew Platte
Lincoln Nebraska



>From my xorg.conf:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "NVIDIA Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model
64/Model 64 Pro]"
        Monitor         "DELL M993c"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           1
                Modes           "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864"
"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           4
                Modes           "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864"
"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           8
                Modes           "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864"
"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           15
                Modes           "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864"
"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           16
                Modes           "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864"
"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864"
"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection