On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:03 PM, mahjongg <[email protected]> wrote: > I was finally able to give an old laptop the 1024 x 768 resolution I > knew the LCD could do (from the 800 x 600 + large gray border around it > it did do because Ubuntu 9.10 did a "monitor not detected" on me) by > adding an xorg.conf text file in /etc/X11 with just the following few > lines only: > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Configured Monitor" > HorizSync 60-60 > VertRefresh 43-117 > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Default Screen" > Monitor "Configured Monitor" > Device "Configured Video Device" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > EndSection >
I keep my settings from my original xorg.conf file around to copy & paste into a new xorg.conf whenever I reinstall Ubuntu. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to enable the Nvidia drivers properly with it. -- Michael "TheZorch" Haney [email protected] http://thezorch.googlepages.com/home Twitter: TheZorch | Skype: thezorch AIM: [email protected] | Yahoo IM: zorchhaney ICQ: 343230252 | GoogleTalk: thezorch MSN Messeger: [email protected] Free Your PC from the Bondage of Windows http://www.ubuntu.com -- can't configure display resolution (monitor, graphics card) manually in gui https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240916 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
