On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:42:37 +0000, Andrew Wood wrote: > On 06/01/12 16:59, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:59:45 +0000, Andrew Wood wrote: >> >>> Ive got an LCD screen whose native resolution is 1440x900 yet i can >>> only get Wheezy to display 1024x768. No higher resolution is listed in >>> System Settings. How do I enable a higher resolution please? >> What's the output of "xrandr"? >> >> You can try to manually add the desired resolution from there (using >> xrandr). Here is a good doc, although it can be a bit oudated, YMMV: >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution#Adding_undetected_resolutions
> Thanks guys, xrandr gives: > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096 > VGA1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > 0mm x 0mm > 1024x768 60.0* > 800x600 60.3 56.2 > 848x480 60.0 > 640x480 59.9 > DVI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) TV1 > disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > > > using the Ubuntu wiki instructions I then tried: > > xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1440x900 > > and got: > > xrandr: cannot find mode 1440x900 Yup, you have to add the unexistant mode before you can use it :-) Steps are detailed at "Adding undetected resolutions" section. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2012.01.06.18.21...@gmail.com
