How to change your screen resolution in Ubuntu

[JohnnyCantTube]

these are the wrong questions to ask experts;

the responses miss the mark about _where_ to find a suitable driver

or drivers that are compatible with hardware from 1999-2003 it is *amazing* to observe the tasks that this humble OS can do with so *few resources

however

driver management is not the strongest feature of this OS

[spindlegrinder]

@JohnnyCantTube I don't even use ubuntu anymore Unity is shit Debian and linux mint are far better for me

but yes linux sucks for hardware sometimes

[JohnnyCantTube]

@spindlegrinder

yes, agree with you

I had to revernt from Ubuntu 11 back to 10.10 for stability

due to very poor operation of desktop enviro

found ways to integrate REDHAT drive into the mix that :partially: works for me

from the OEM as an interim step-

found that it helps to know which chipset is used on mombrd and then backtrack

[spindlegrinder]

@JohnnyCantTube I got debian on half my hard drive and I'm trying out Linux mint 12 on the other half gnome 3 isn't too bad if you install Brightside an edge flipping app and I also installed Faenza Black to get rid of the green folders and hope gtk theme which gives you nice black window borders. it's still a bit buggy but i think i can get used to Gnome 3 if not like you say theirs always an older version of either ubuntu of linux mint but they are only maintained untill next year

[imadsaidbhai]

I fuck u r sister

[spindlegrinder]

@imadsaidbhai I fuck your mother lol

[spindlegrinder]

@imadsaidbhai I have a no sister

[tosiuk]

i have an intel graphics card on my laptop FS315 its pissing me off i cant change the resolution more then it shows on the monitor display. 1200:800(appx)

but when i run xrandr it says i can increase it a lore more but the options are not shown on the monito display tool (ubuntu 10.10)

Does anyone know how to fix this crap which is pissing me off ? p.s. the xorg.conf which i dont fucking know what it is for does not exist on my etc/X11/

[spindlegrinder]

@tosiuk do you have the hardware drivers installed?

[tosiuk]

@spindlegrinder Yes, Graphics card is Inter Graphics Media Accelerator 900 and the driver installed is Intel Driver 2.14

[spindlegrinder]

@tosiuk 1280 x 1024 should be as high as you need to go, I use a 32 inch lcd tv and the resolution is 1360 x 768 and everything looks fine, is it an older laptop?

[tosiuk]

@spindlegrinder top panel + mozilla nav bar + tabs = 20% of my screen cant really say this is normal to me. Had to install ubuntu again after going through peoples experiments i ended up with no OS :P so from scratch again i guess cant remember now how i installed the drivers as i am pretty new to life with linux commands anyhow i will find a way.

Thanks anyway!

[r4ym4n1]

@pokeplant you can also writte in Terminal: xrandr -s 1280x1024 (enter)

[spindlegrinder]

@r4ym4n1 Yes you can but only an experienced linux user would know that, I think having GUI is good for linux

but terminal commands are also very useful

[tosiuk]

@r4ym4n1 xrandr -s 1280x1024

Size 1280x1024 not found in available modes

[tosiuk]

@r4ym4n1 xrandx -q

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 4096 x 4096

VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1280x800 60.0*+ 1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.1 60.0 1024x768i 43.5

.... etc

Why does it say max 4096 x 4096 but doesnt show the resos on system-->prefs --> monitors tool

[r4ym4n1]

@tosiuk I don't know lol i'm not a pro with linux I just saw the answer xrandr -s 1280x1024 (enter) on another video to help people.... I just got Linux lol... sry :S

[spindlegrinder]

I forgot to add : Make sure your hardware drivers are installed first, and also click apply and save x to configuration file.

[pokeplant]

exactly that doesn't work! i just get 3 options of the resolution!