[Tfug] monitor resolution

Judd Pickell pickell at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 21:06:30 MST 2008


Did you enable the restricted drivers? I am not sure about ATI, but
for it to work with my nVidia 8500GT, I had to enable the restricted
drivers for it.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Malcolm Schmerl <mjs355 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>> On Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 05:17:17PM -0700, Malcolm Schmerl wrote:
>>
>>> I later found a ATI Rage 9200 which I'm sure is capable of a
>>> much higher resolution but after installing it, I find that I'm
>>> still stuck with the low resolution. I assume that something
>>> needs to be changed in the system files.
>>>
>>
>> You'll need to update your configuration. If running XOrg, it
>> will probably be in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>>
>> Depending on the distribution you use, there are tools to help
>> you reconfigure. For example, on Debian and its derivatives, as
>> root you can use:
>>
>> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
>>
>>
> Glenn, I tried the above command. It only gave me options to change the
> keyboard (nice tool, though). My distribution is Ubuntu 8.04. Does
> anyone know the correct tool to change the video configuration? Thanks,
> Malcolm
>
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