Ubuntu Installation :: Unable To Set Resolution To 1440x900
Jul 16, 2011
I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my Dell Latitude D610 (with ATI X300 graphics card) and am trying to set the default resolution to 1440x900 for my Samsung Syncmaster 931 monitor. I have installed "fglrx" and when I run "xrandr -q" I get the following information.
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Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1440 x 1440
VGA-0 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 410mm x 257mm
1440x900 59.9 + 75.0
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
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Other posts say I need to edit "etc/x11/xorg.conf" but this file does not appear to exist.
After having problems with an onboard graphics chipset I've just installed an ATI Radeon 128Mb 9000 Pro AGP graphics card into my old computer... The problem is that I can't get it to use 1440x900 resolution that my LG L194WT (Ubuntu won't detect it) requires and the highest I can select is 1360x768 and that looks all wrong
lspci gives:
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] (rev 01) 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Radeon 9000] (Secondary) (rev 01)
And /var/log/Xorg.0.log gives:
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X.Org X Server 1.7.6 Release Date: 2010-03-17 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
so I've finally told myself i'd be better off with ubuntu instead of windows. And now I'm seeing I've made the wrong decision. I've spent 4 hours searching the web about how to get the 1440x900, tried some of the solutions and nothing worked. The resolution doesnt show up in the nvidia control panel. I tried somehow editing xorg.conf which just messed everything up so i had to put it in the default state..
I run RHEL5 on Dell GX280 with "Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)" and i810 driver. But I cannot obtain 1440x900 resolution. Here's my xorg.conf:
I've been loitering over my resolution and nvidia xserver settings for about 2 days now, fiddling with xorg.conf and breaking ubuntu in the process trying to get my resolution at it's native settings. I've searched through many forums and none of them have solved my problem. Its maximum resolution is 1360x768, which isn't enough. It should be 1440x900. I have tried adding custom modes to the xorg.conf file and it wouldn't work. I don't know what's going on. Also here is my xorg.conf since I saved the nvidia settings to it...
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result: while it actually can support upto 1440x900, the highest available resolution is 1360x768.
While on windows, i used the nvidia utility to add the custom resolution and everything was nice.
On ubuntu 10.04, i haven't found a way to do that yet. yes, i searched forums, tried a couple of things with the xorg.conf file and lxrandr, etc. but to no avail.
I did manage to get the resolution listed in ubuntu's own display manager, and it shows 1440x900, but it doesn't apply when i hit 'apply'.
The nvidia settings manager does not show the resolution.
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Word is from googling that long as vbeinfo lists a resolution, GRUB2 can use it. This doesn't seem to be true: vbeinfo says that 1440x900 is available but it doesn't work.
Testing it from the GRUB2 command line:
set gxfmode=1440x900 terminal_output gfxterm # -> garbled nonsense # back to trusty 640x480 terminal_output console
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Since earlier versions of Ubuntu did it, this should also, but..
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# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file) # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page. # (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.) # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only* if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg package. # Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings. Here are ignored. If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated again, run the following command: # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
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Before anyone asks my password is in lower case and the NUMLOCK is off and I know I'm not mis-typing it.
here's the strange bit, when I reset the computer and the resolution goes back to 800 x 600 it then accepts my password. go figure!
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# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file) # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
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Here's the xorg.conf (after a few iterations, it became a bit busy ...): # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder5 Fri Mar 12 02:12:40 PST 2010 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" Option "Xinerama" "0" EndSection .....
