Display Adjustment

[Jerome B Newell]

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 22:53 +0500, Farid Ansari wrote:
> I have faced a problem while adjusting the display settings from 1280
> X to 1024 X 768 on two machines. After adjusting the resolution to
> 1024 X 768  when I restart the computer the display is 640 X and is
> not adjustable upwards and this has made me format and reinstall
> Kubuntu 7.04 although all the available updates were downloaded and
> installed.
> Please advise if some solution for this problem is available.
> Thanks and Regards,
> Farid Ansari

I had similar problems when using older machines and found that if I
dropped the depth (number of colours) from 32 to 16 it allowed me to run
higher res. If that doesn't work, (although it has always worked for me)
open a terminal and type "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-org"

Cheers
Jerome B

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