I would like to know if this is unique to one or more distributions
such as Ubuntu. Or if it is simply a function of one or more
desktops such as KDE. I wouldn't be surprised if it is the latter.
If so, changing distributions won't help.
So before changing your install, try switching to xfce4. You can
get it by "apt-get install xubuntu-desktop".
--
Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
It is not what we do, but also what we do not do,
for which we are accountable. --- Molière
Jared Ubelhor wrote:
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] <mailto:[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.
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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!
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