[plug] Ubuntu 5.10 screen resolution prob [OT]

[Shannon Carver]

Chris, 

Here is my (probably not correct, but working fine) excerpt from my
xorg.conf in the monitor section, where the refresh rates are kept:

Section "Monitor"

        Identifier   "My Monitor"
        HorizSync    30-97
        VertRefresh  50-180
        DisplaySize 360 270
        ModeLine     "1280x1024 at 85Hz(VESA)" 157.5 1280 1344 1504 1728
1024 1025 1028 1072 +hsync +vsync
        ModeLine     "1600x1200 at 75Hz(VESA)" 202.5 1600 1664 1856 2160
1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
        vendorname "Auriga"
        modelname "[19NF]"
        ModeLine "1280x1024/85Hz" 157.5 1280 1344 1504 1728 1024 1025
1028 1072  +HSync +VSync
EndSection

Note, this is the section that varies from computer to computer, monitor
to monitor.  These settings are for an extremely cheap, crappy to look
at, and crappy display quality 19" CRT.

I must admit, setting up X on a variety of different monitors with
different refresh rates, this is probably the most annoying and tedious
part.  This is mainly due to the fact that a lot of monitor manufactures
don't bother putting their Horizontal Sync and Vertical Refresh ranges
on their websites, or in their manuals, especially for older CRT's.

Hope that helps a bit, those ModeLine lines above are specific to my
monitor so you can remove them straight away :P

Shannon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf
> Of Chris Griffin
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 March 2006 2:49 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Ubuntu 5.10 screen resolution prob [OT]
> 
> Hi Shannon,
> thanks for the quick reply.
> I have been looking in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file but have not been
> able to identify what to change.
> I changed the resolution from 1152x864 to 800x600 (which I would think
> should not cause any issues) but I think it would be the change of the
> refresh rate from 56 to 60 that had done the dirty deed.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris G
> 
> On 3/15/06, Shannon Carver <Shannon.Carver at p-s-t.com.au> wrote:
> > Off topic, but have you heard about the bug in Breezy (5.10) where
> > passwords are stored in plain text?  I'll have to dig up the article
for
> > you, I was reading it on Monday.
> >
> > I'm wondering if tinkering with your display settings is as easy as
> > editing /etc/X11/XOrg.conf (or /etc/X11/XF86.Config, if you're using
> > Xfree86 as opposed to XOrg, I assume late versions of Ubuntu would
all
> > be Xorg though).
> >
> > And your root password question, from the ubuntu guide ->
> >
> > >>>>>What's the root password after I install? How do I use the root
> > account?
> >
> > The root account is disabled when you first install Ubuntu. The
first
> > user created during the installation has administrative rights on
the
> > system, and can run programs as root with sudo, using only their
normal
> > user password. For example: sudo apt-get update. Additional
information
> > and some rationale about sudo can be found in the wiki here. sudo
Super
> > User Do has been around since 1981.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Shannon
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au]
On
> > Behalf
> > > Of Chris Griffin
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 15 March 2006 2:06 PM
> > > To: plug at plug.org.au
> > > Subject: [plug] Ubuntu 5.10 screen resolution prob
> > >
> > > Greetings folks,
> > >
> > > I have just decided to try out Ubuntu again and have installed
5.10 in
> > > a VMware session.
> > > Having got it working I decided to change the screen resolution
and
> > > while doing so changed the refresh rate from 56 to 60. This all
went
> > > well (including when it did the test) until I restarted the
system.
> > > Now after logging on I get a screen full of subbish. I can log in
with
> > > safe mode text console and am looking for where to change the
settings
> > > back to default. Any hints, BTW, what is the default root PW?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Chris Griffin
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