Can't get screen resolution above 800x600

[dstew]

There is also the command (should be a menu item)

gksudo displayconfig-gtk

In there, you can pick your monitor by brand name, and get the correct settings, including resolutions and refresh rates.

[Inxsible]

You must have forgot, this command does not reconfigure graphics in Hardy.

System >Prefs>Screen Resolution

And System > Admin>Hardware drivers are the place to look.

D'oh !!!

My bad !!!

I just switched over to Hardy and haven't had the need to set up any resolutions since it worked OOTB.

Also I like the command line too much

[philinux]

There is also the command (should be a menu item)

gksudo displayconfig-gtk

In there, you can pick your monitor by brand name, and get the correct settings, including resolutions and refresh rates.

You can have it as a menu item. Use System>Prefs>Main Menu

Look in other, it's been moved there under screens and graphics.

I think the devs are hoping Hardware Drivers and screen resolution do the job.

There was talk when in development that screens and graphics might break something in Hardy. Seem to be only option for some hardware.

[Thee_Baron_]

There is also the command (should be a menu item)

gksudo displayconfig-gtk

In there, you can pick your monitor by brand name, and get the correct settings, including resolutions and refresh rates.

Great, thanks worked perfectly!
Also thanks to everyone else for helping.

[Franko30]

You can have it as a menu item. Use System>Prefs>Main Menu
Look in other, it's been moved there under screens and graphics.
I think the devs are hoping Hardware Drivers and screen resolution do the job.

Hi there,

and many thanks for the information.

Personally I am really frustrated that in 8.04 there's so little possibilities to influece the "automagic" configuration.

On my old Vaio SRX51P laptop all previous Ubuntu versions had no problem installing - but with 8.04 (Hardy) the screen resolution stayed at 800x600 with no possibilty to change that...

Now everything works again.

Thanks

Franko30

[itisbasi]

There is also the command (should be a menu item)

gksudo displayconfig-gtk

In there, you can pick your monitor by brand name, and get the correct settings, including resolutions and refresh rates.

A million thanks to you for that. I was struggling to get the right resolution in jaunty. I kept getting this weird "Failed to set MetaMode" error. This one fixed it.

[ChadAragorn]

What type of monitor are you using? CRT or LCD? I had this exact problem for a few days after installing ubuntu 8.10 and finally have it working perfectly. I had to find a working xorg.conf file and copy it's contents to replace the contents of my own. You are welcome to try using what I have; keep in mind, you will need to edit the file to change the things that pertain to your setup. From what I've learned there are 3 important things that need to be configured for the resolution to change: Monitor, Device, and Screen. I will now past those sections of my xorg.conf file.

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "CRT-0"
HorizSync 31.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
EndSection


Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 7900 GT/GTO"
EndSection


Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "1280x1024 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "1280x1024_60 +0+0; 1280x1024 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection


I use a nvidia 7900GT and nvidia drivers, you don't. So you will need to change this file to match what you have. But this is what it should look like when you are done; at least from my experience- keep in mind I'm a linux noob too.

[MaxIBoy]

How to I find out what my video card is? Its build into the motherboard.

Forgot to say I tried

sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk

but it didn't change anything.

Thanks!

So you installed it, but did you run it?