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banditxkr
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8. February 2008 @ 20:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hello I have a USB Belkin Flip product hooked up to two of my computers one with xp (don't shoot me) and one with Ubuntu 7.04. Since installing this product the resolution on my linux computer has been screwed up. The rsolution has been locked at 640x480 and a refresh rate of 50hz

please help this is very annoying

thanks in advance




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varnull
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8. February 2008 @ 20:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Do your settings return to normal if the device is unplugged?
banditxkr
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8. February 2008 @ 20:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yes they do




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tripplite
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8. February 2008 @ 23:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
it seems to be ubuntu although i have not experienced this problems many a folk have
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=403329

VARNULL-hooray your a senior in the old system you would have been a senior a long time ago but know it goes by post, but you've been here a long time so it was bound to happen


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10. February 2008 @ 16:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thanks anyway guys, i quess i'll just have to keep checking belkin's support page for a driver




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10. February 2008 @ 19:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It shouldn't need one..

You can try editing your xorg.conf file to leave only the resolution you want, but at your own risk.. The switch is obviously breaking the link between your pc and monitor.
banditxkr
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11. February 2008 @ 14:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by varnull:
It shouldn't need one..

You can try editing your xorg.conf file to leave only the resolution you want, but at your own risk.. The switch is obviously breaking the link between your pc and monitor.

too risky for me unless you could create a very noobish step by step for me




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11. February 2008 @ 16:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i rarely go into my Linux as much as i used to, but this should help!
i had the same issue as you the guides are in order of first the best last the worse, (although they are all quite good one should work for you!)



title of web page: Editing basics for the xorg.conf file
http://www.linux.com/feature/118108

this is about how to have dual monitors on linux with out botching everything UP
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221174

[How To] Editing The Xorg .conf File
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19505

questions, answerers, results!?!
post back!
-tripplite


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11. February 2008 @ 18:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It isn't really that risky, my monitor does some crazy colour wave pattern when a bad resolution is applied, but I think most monitors are robust enough to not completely break by applying something bad. I have a bitchy monitor that I pretty much have to fix the resolution in my xorg.conf (I think a power surge a few years back messed a couple of minor things up on it, the auto adjust does more harm than good, and the brightness is shot, but too cheap to buy a new one -> thus Linux...).

What you NEED to remember is how to break into a text terminal: Ctrl-Alt-F1 through Ctrl-Alt-F4. Ctrl-Alt-F7 will take you back to your xorg session, and Ctrl-Alt-BkSpc will restart the xorg session, at least if you have it selected.

If you have a bad resolution and can't see anything, just break into a terminal, login as root, adjust your xorg.conf, then just issue an "/etc/rc.d/gdm restart" or go back to the xorg one with the F7 command and do a Ctrl-Alt-BkSpc. Ubuntu might dick you around a bit there, might need to login as your user and "sudo" things, and the directory might be a bit different from rc.d, but you should get the general idea I'm getting at.

Just get in there, first work out how to get yourself out of trouble and then make a backup of your xorg.conf and start shredding out crap you don't want/need. You'll be surprised at how minimal it really can be. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Extensa_5220#xorg.conf That is a link to the file I use on my girlfriend's laptop (dodgy wiki page written by yours truly). I should probably rip out all the crap I put in there for running Compiz Fusion (she liked the eye candy but got bored of it pretty soon after, and desktop cube is difficult to take advantage of on laptop), and I could probably even tear out most of the fonts, I don't know that it is all that useful having them in there, and if all of them even truly exist. So maybe 1/3 of that text can even be removed.

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11. February 2008 @ 21:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ya as long as you take it slow its pretty hard to mess up

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i rarely go into my Linux as much as i used to, but this should help!
i had the same issue as you the guides are in order of first the best last the worse, (although they are all quite good one should work for you!)



title of web page: Editing basics for the xorg.conf file
http://www.linux.com/feature/118108

this is about how to have dual monitors on linux with out botching everything UP
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221174

[How To] Editing The Xorg .conf File
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19505
best of luck to U!
-tripplite


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12. February 2008 @ 11:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
philips 15" monitor .. wrong settings 1280x1024 @ 85Hz.. click.. dead


now you know what your normal resolution is, so just edit the monitor section of xorg.conf to have just that setting for depths 16 and 24.. that will be safe as it works without the switch.

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banditxkr
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12. February 2008 @ 21:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
when i went to edit xorg.config it gave me a Gnome-UI error saying that none of the authenticiation protocols specified were supported.

what i typed:

gedit /etc/x11/xorg.config

i was the root user at the time




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12. February 2008 @ 21:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Might sound dumb, but is the file you're trying to modify xorg.conf or xorg.config? Try typing up to the "xorg." and hit [TAB] once or twice, it should autocomplete or list options if there are more than one matching file with that pattern...
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12. February 2008 @ 22:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)

current location on debian.. not a clue about stoopid ubuntu.

Y'know.. you should really be bashing this out over on the ubuntu forum.. they make the stuff, so they should fix it..

If we fix it here the problem remains as the ubuntu devs will never have seen it (unless one of us feels charitable and posts it there for them.. not likely, but stranger things have happened)

Posting bugs and problems like this on the main distro forums is the way you make linux better for all users.. AD isn't the place for dealing with unsupported hardware and things which should just work..

yeah.. we don't care really.. it's a reported problem with this hardware device and ubuntu, and I think we fixed it with forcing the x-config anyway. Either that or it will trash your switch and monitor :looolz:

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banditxkr
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16. February 2008 @ 11:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i guess i'll go post on ubuntu. thanks for getting me this far.




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