Hi, Actually there should be a backup of your xorg.conf file which you can restore back and get your previous resolution. Cross your fingers and try this. Works most of the times.
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf - Tushar 2009/7/6 Bijay Rai <[email protected]> > > Hi All, > > Today I proved that 'little knowledge is really dangerous'. Without any > in-depth knowledge regarding display settings in Ubuntu, I connected my > laptop to an external CRT monitor and experimented the display for a while > setting the display resolution to 1024x768 on both of the laptop and external > monitor. Later on, I disconnected the external monitor from the laptop and > tried to restore my laptop resolution to wider setting (it was 1280x800 > previously) but I couldn't see the 1280x800 option in the list. It was there > before I connected and used the external monitor, but now the largest setting > I find is 1024x768 which leaves black spaces on both left and right side of > the laptop screen. How can I restore my laptop resolution to previous setting > (i.e. 1280x800) so that the whole part of the screen is occupied by the > display. > > Thanks in advance. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
