On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 16:59 -0600, John Thornton wrote: > Don't know that much about Ubuntu but my xorg.conf file looked the > same till I plugged in a different video card. I read somewhere if > Ubuntu didn't recognize the hardware it just use a default... and the > Kbuntu was a bit better at recognizing hardware for some reason... > > John
Just in case, I have had to edit the xorg.conf file in just about every Linux install to get the screen resolutions I want. In a terminal session: "sudo su -" "nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf" Then edit the Device, Monitor and Screen sections to suit your hardware. One of my xorg.conf's looks like this but your will be different. ... Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" # Driver "nvidia" Driver "vesa" EndSection ... Section "Monitor" Identifier "Configured Monitor" Horizsync 30-66 Vertrefresh 50-130 EndSection ... Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Monitor "Configured Monitor" Device "Configured Video Device" Defaultdepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection ... Then close all open windows and Control-Alt-Backspace to reload the config file. There is a danger that your changes might keep X from starting again, if so, edit xorg.conf in a text session (Alt-F1) to fix it and then use the command "startx". Kirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users