[plug] Ubuntu 5.10 screen resolution prob [OT]

[Chris Griffin]

Greetings all and thanks to everyone who has answered.
I have not been able to check everything yet as after restarting
overnight, VMware Server (revision 22088)  has decided not to play. I
am working on that with VMware and will eventually get it going again,
I hope.

Kind regards,
Chris G

On 3/15/06, Adam Davin <byteme-its at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:53:17 +0800
> Tomasz Grzegurzko <tomasz_g at arach.net.au> wrote:
>
> > Quoting Chris Griffin <griffinster at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> >
> > I think chris changed the res in his personal profile preferences. I
> > can't recall where the file is stored (somewhere in your home
> > directory) but you need to find that and change/zap it...
> >
> I believe that the system checks for a configuration file in the users
> home directory. Might be there somewhere? Could be either as a .??????
> file or just a normal file.
>
> I know I had an issue like this at one stage when someone sent me a
> xfree86 config file and I saved it, without thinking, into my home
> directory. Next time I started X it all died with these warnings about
> driver not being correct. Took me a while to realise and delete the
> offending xconfig file.
>
> Regards,
>
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>
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