On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:00:41AM +0100, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi,
2008/10/13 Chris G cl@isbd.net:
I'm trying out Ubuntu 8.10 on my new system.
It insists on setting the resolution in X to 1152x864 by default. This is a real pain because it looks awful on my Dell display which has a native resolution of 1600x1200.
I can set the user desktop to 1600x1200 but that doesn't change anything else, for example the gdm login is still at the lower (fuzzy) resolution and if I change to anothe window manager that's at the lower resolution too.
Where does the 'default' come from now that there are no explicit resolutions in xorg.conf? Can I put 1600x1200 explicitly in xorg.conf and, if I do that, will it cause any problems?
Did you not ask this before? Do you make a habit of ignoring people's suggestions?
I asked a similar question but this time around I had found out more about what was going on so I thought it was worth providing the extra information.
Does the following help (fill in the ID, device, monitor)?
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. FireGL Mobility T2 (M10 NT)" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1600x1200" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1600x1200" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1600x1200" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1600x1200" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1600x1200" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" EndSubSection EndSection
As I understand it all the above shouldn't be necessary. However see my response to Steve's solution which has worked perfectly for me and provides exactly what I want with minumum change to the xorg.conf file.