New monitor, how to change screen resolution?

2010-04-29 Thread James Stuckey
Hello, I just changed monitors and the new one has a different resolution. How do I configure my system to account for the change?

Re: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?

2010-04-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:42:58 -0400 (EDT), James Stuckey wrote: I just changed monitors and the new one has a different resolution. How do I configure my system to account for the change? You didn't provide much information, James. I'm afraid that there's no one size fits all answer to that

Re: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?

2010-04-29 Thread James Stuckey
You didn't provide much information, James. I'm afraid that there's no one size fits all answer to that question. It depends on a lot of things. Please provide the following information: (1) The make and model of your computer (2) The make and model of your video card (3) The make and

Re: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?

2010-04-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:30:40 -0400 (EDT), James Stuckey wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: You didn't provide much information, James. I'm afraid that there's no one size fits all answer to that question. It depends on a lot of things. Please provide the following information: (1) The make and

Re: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?

2010-04-29 Thread Redalert Commander
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 15:20 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:30:40 -0400 (EDT), James Stuckey wrote: [snip] (1) I'm on AMD64/Asus motherboard P5Q (2) NVIDIA 9800GT (3) ASUS VH242H (4) LCD (5) Digital connection, not DVI Digital connection, but not DVI? Hmm.

X server starts on the wrong console (was: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?)

2010-04-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:27:38 -0400 (EDT), Redalert Commander wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: James Stuckey wrote: (7) ... (++) using VT number 8 This is off topic, but did you notice that the X server initialized itself on VT number 8 instead of VT number 7? That means, for example, that

Re: X server starts on the wrong console (was: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?)

2010-04-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 17:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: and it will work. Then, in theory, restarting the X server again (such as with /etc/init.d/gdm restart) should cause the X server to restart on vt 7. This used to work, but the last time I tried it I ended up with two X servers, one

Re: X server starts on the wrong console (was: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?)

2010-04-29 Thread Redalert Commander
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 14:43 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 17:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: and it will work. Then, in theory, restarting the X server again (such as with /etc/init.d/gdm restart) should cause the X server to restart on vt 7. This used to work, but the

Re: X server starts on the wrong console (was: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?)

2010-04-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:26:26 -0400 (EDT), Redalert Commander wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 14:43 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 17:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Then, in theory, restarting the X server again (such as with /etc/init.d/gdm restart) should cause the X server