14.04 Questions

[Bill vance]

On 4/17/15, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Bill vance wrote:
>> Thanks gang, I'll try to find pager.  What about my other question,
>> though? Seems like the functionality is just going away for nothing
>> anyone wants.
>
> That was the question about switching screen resolutions ...
>
> It may depend on the graphics driver you are using, but I'm not sure.
> With my nvidia card the default was only the best resolution my monitor
> can use. I made my own xorg.conf (for the proprietary nvidia driver)
> which includes the resolutions I want to use. With that xorg.conf I can
> switch resolutions like it has always worked.
>
>
> Nils


Can you suggest a source of info about how to do that?  I can recall dealing
with that sort of thing years ago, but that was on Caldera Linux;  Ancient
History.  I don't even know where they hide it these days.

Bill