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black28
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5. December 2009 @ 11:42 |
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can anyone help me set my resolution higher? it wont go higher than 800x600. it's a HP Pavilion 521c, Video Card is Trident Microsystems Cyberblade i1. running Xubuntu 9.1 on a 19" Samsung Syncmaster 906bw. it is not reading any drivers on the PC. this is what my xorg.conf file looks like,
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "dri2"
Load "extmod"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "AccelMethod" # [<str>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "PciRetry" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SetMClk" # <freq>
#Option "MUXThreshold" # <i>
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "NoMMIO" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoPciBurst" # [<bool>]
#Option "MMIOonly" # [<bool>]
#Option "CyberShadow" # [<bool>]
#Option "CyberStretch" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvHsync" # <i>
#Option "XvVsync" # <i>
#Option "XvBskew" # <i>
#Option "XvRskew" # <i>
#Option "FpDelay" # <i>
#Option "Display1400" # [<bool>]
#Option "Display" # [<str>]
#Option "GammaBrightness" # [<str>]
#Option "TVChipset" # [<str>]
#Option "TVSignal" # <i>
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "trident"
VendorName "Trident Microsystems"
BoardName "CyberBlade/i1"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
HorizSync 31.5 - 50
VertRefresh 50-110
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Viewport 0 0
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Viewport 0 0
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Viewport 0 0
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Viewport 0 0
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Viewport 0 0
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
i've tried editing the 800x600 to 1440x900 but nothing happens. please help with this. i'm fairly newbish and been trying to get this configured for almost a week now. All help is greatly Appreciated. Thanks so much in advanced.
also is it worth Dual Booting 2 Linux Distros? was thinking of Xubuntu and Fedora 12. any suggestions on this or fedora alone?
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 5. December 2009 @ 11:44
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5. December 2009 @ 15:42 |
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6. December 2009 @ 13:22 |
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Well, I'm familiar only with Debian. Perhaps something was left out during installation. Your x.conf looks a little spare. Is your monitor really a 'Monitor model', built by 'Monitor vendor'?
Try a larger distribution, installed from scratch. Your X configuration file should contains only the default resolution for your monitor (which seems a bit conservative here). Perhaps your monitor wasn't in their database, or your install went badly. (I didn't catch what flavor of Linux you installed.)
Even so, if you're using a graphical Desktop at all, it should allow you to simply adjust your monitor's resolution and frequency dynamically. On the default GNOME desktop of Debian GNU/Linux, I drop down the 'Desktop' menu, choose 'Preferences', then 'Screen Resolution'. The actual file run is
/usr/bin/gnome-display-properties
There are drop-down menus for both resolution & frequency. These don't get written to the X configuration file unless I click the little 'make default' button.
If your video card supports your monitor (or vice-versa), try and have the desktop application write your X.conf. If it offers no finer resolution, try a different distribution that can narrow your monitor down a little more. (Ubuntu is based upon Debian; Fedora is based upon Red Hat.)
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6. December 2009 @ 13:26 |
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Oh, sorry: Xubuntu 9.1. Try Fedora 12.
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6. December 2009 @ 13:32 |
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Just a small point (for I don't know how to edit messages).
When I used to build systems for small businesses, I first selected the software best for them, then the operating system that best ran it, then the hardware that best ran the operating system.
Sometimes things can get reversed.
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6. December 2009 @ 13:38 |
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Edit is the little pencil icon above each post :)
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6. December 2009 @ 14:04 |
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Originally posted by creaky:
Edit is the little pencil icon above each post :)
Amazing. I could have sworn it was never there before. Thanks!
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6. December 2009 @ 16:28 |
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xubuntu.. even more crap than n00buntu.. try straight debian, because it has way more hardware support for a start
What graphics card/chipset are you running.. this is a real common situation with ati cards..
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20. December 2009 @ 22:04 |
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21. December 2009 @ 02:05 |
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 21. December 2009 @ 02:08
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scorpNZ
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21. December 2009 @ 03:33 |
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Perhaps puppy on live cd ,it'll come with the xorg as well as xvesa desktop,try the xorg if it black screens then you'll have to use xvesa which means monitor res will be a max of 1028x768,then decide if you want to install or attempt an xubuntu fix or another distro,would an earlier version of xubuntu do it or maybe a earlier version of kubuntu,i think you may be stuck unless you want to upgrade the graphic card,hp's intergrated graphics ain't the greatest & i should know..lol..
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