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
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