[plug] help needed with Ubuntu screen resolution

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

I've found certain video drivers have an autodetect mode (I had this 
problem with SUSE actually) that attempts to guess what resolution / 
refresh rate etc your monitor uses or something. What kind of video 
driver does your laptop use? I think I stumbled across this when I 
checked the man page for some intel video card driver... It was the i810 
from memory and..

  Option "DDC" "boolean"
               Disable or enable DDC support.  Default: enabled.

I had to set this to false. Perhaps that is your trouble?

Tomasz

Richard Meyer wrote:
> Hi, I need help with Ubuntu on my laptop. I was having problems with
> SuSE 10 booting erratically - and it took a loooooonnnnnng time, so I
> decided to try something else.
> 
> Now this laptop has an LCD screen (big surprise), and
> the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file only has modes for 1024x768 (which is
> correct), but Ubuntu come up in 800x600, and the Ubuntu Gnome desktop
> offers me the marvellous choice of 800x600 or 640x480 - Where can I
> change this stupid behaviour?  (when I installed Ubuntu on a desktop
> machine, I was offered the choice of setting the desktop resolution, but
> for some reason I don't get it on the lappy)
> 
> --
> Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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