OMFG This is stupid. I don't understand why this has to be so complicated. I'm downloading SUSE again.
On 7/11/07, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I had a similar experience. As far as I could tell Ubuntu wasn't even reading the xorg.conf file when it came to setting the screen resolution. I got lots of suggestions about editing that file. All were worthless. Turns out KDE ignores that file and has its own ideas about screen resolution. Here is a critical excerpt from that conversation: >> BTW, the KDE desktop plays with the randr. KDM on my laptop defaults >> to 3000x1200 (spread over two screens) and when I log in, it changes >> to 1400x1050. I have no idea how to control that. > > This could very well be the problem. It feels like the > Microshaftization of Linux. "We know what you want better than > you do." Gnome and now evidently KDE are badly infected by this > scourge. > > OK, I found it. "System Settings"/"Monitor & Display"/"Size, > Orientation..." The other thing you should look at is xrandr. Xrandr(3) man page is in the libxrandr-dev package. -- Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/<http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/%7Eabrown/> Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. ---Aldous Huxley Jared Ubelhor wrote: > Arrg. If this monitor weren't so awesome it wouldn't be worth the trouble. > > Long story short.. something broken in my computer with evil ATI card, > so I'm using my old PC (with nvidia card). > > I can not, can not, can not, can not, get Ubuntu to run at 1680x1050 > even though it is in xorg.conf. > I've installed the drivers, and even ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. > > The only thing that has worked so far (don't ask my why I tried this) is: > 1) booted to recovery mode. > 2) mv xorg.conf xorg.fnoc > starx > To my surprise, with no xorg.conf to read from, X started up and let me > choose 1680x1050, but of course there was no hardware acceleration! > > Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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