[wellylug] Xorg screen resolution issues

[Daniel Pittman]

Steve Macdonald <dakmani1 at yahoo.co.nz> writes:

> I am running kubuntu dapper and have noticed that I
> cant change the screen resolution to 1280x800. The max
> it allows is 1024x768. I have also noticed that in
> xorg.conf that it is using the "versa" driver not the

That would be "vesa" rather than "versa" I presume?

> sis driver which checking adept says that the sis
> driver is installed.
>
> Now in suse it works perfectly, infect the default
> resolution is set to 1280x800.
>
> How can I solve this?

Two methods that might work:

First, try manually changing the configuration of the X server.

Run the command 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg' and answer
the questions.

Try having it do automatic detection and stuff, but if that doesn't
work, manually give the answers you want.


If, and I recommend only if, that doesn't help then you can edit
/etc/X11/xorg.conf yourself to impose the correct settings.

Leave that as a last resort, and consult the manual page for that file,
to understand how.

Regards,
        Daniel
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