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Max selectable screen resolution 1024x768

Bug #91659 reported by Thomas Pryds
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Bug Description

After a clean install of Feisty Fawn Herd 5, I am not able to select higher resolution than 1024x768 from the "Screen Resolution" tool in the "Administration" menu. Tried installing the nvidia-glx package, but no change after that (and a reboot) -- and even if there had been, it would be nice if it worked out of the box instead.

04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7300 LE (rev a1)

Not sure what more info you need; please request if more needed. Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 12 15:01:05 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux herd5 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

could you attach the output of 'sudo lspci -vvnn' and 'xresprobe nv'?

Changed in xorg:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

This sounds similar to problems others have reported, in that available screen resolutions are not being detected properly.

A workaround is to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the higher resolution that you need to each of the Mode lines. For example, I did this for mine to add 1400x1050:

        SubSection "Display"
                Depth 24
                Modes "1400x1050" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
etc.

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sonium (sonium) wrote :

I had the same problem, but after adding "1280x960" to the xorg.conf the configuration dialog showed me up a whole bunch of more resolutions not only the one I added.

I added the resquested atachment, however xresprobe is not available on my system.

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Joseph Wakeling (webdrake) wrote :

I used a similar solution to Bryce and Sonium. However, there is a follow-on problem---on Kubuntu, fonts on the desktop begin displaying far too large after I switched to a higher resolution.

Later, with a fresh install of Ubuntu, I logged in initially in a failsafe terminal to edit xorg.conf, and then restarted. The desktop displayed correctly but gdm displayed the too-large fonts observed previously in Kubuntu.

Presumably there's some link of initial screen resolution with font size used for the desktop and gdm .... ?

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

Leaving in needsinfo pending reply from Thomas...

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Doughy (doughywilson) wrote :

I'm having the same problem as the original one described. I tried updating my xorg.conf file, but my changes never show up in the screen resolution menu in gnome.

I'm trying to use the i810 Intel 965 graphics, with an ACER AL1916 monitor.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

Doughy:
I suspect you are better off filing a new bug report because your card isn't an NVIDIA...

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Closing as out of date. Presumably the workaround suggested will solve the problem? In any case, this sounds like a dupe of 3731 and other monitor/card mis-detection bugs that people have reported.

Changed in xorg:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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