[RLUG] screen rez problem

[Ed Jaeger]

First you need to find out if your graphics hardware can do those pixel 
dimensions.  I bought a 1440x900 LCD for home and had to get a new 
display card before it would drive it at the proper pixel dimensions. 
What do you have?

Dennis Bagley wrote:
> I have a screen resolution problem in Ubuntu
> 
> 
> I swapped out my monitor for an HDTV monitor because of the additional 
> real estate.  At first I was getting the message that the monitor "did 
> not support the resolution."  I had it at 1024x768. The max resolution 
> on this puppy is 1280x720.
> 
> I went in and modified the xorg.conf and "downgraded" the resolution and 
> was able to finally fire up X.  But it's horrible at this low rez.  How 
> do I force Ubuntu to use a custom rez of 1280x720?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Dennis
> 
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