Monitor Settings at boot; Ottawa Linux or Ubuntu Club?

[Andrew Mathenge]

Under System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution in the Gnome/Ubuntu
menu, you should be able to set the resolution that you want to use.

You can also check the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf. There's a section
named "Screen" that lists the resolutions/modes that your monitor is
capable of. One of the items is named "Defaultdepth" which tells the
X-Server which resolution it should use as the default.

Below is the Screen section of my xorg.conf. As you can see, all the
modes are 1440x900 with the default being 24 bpp - a gazillion colors.

So try changing the resolution using the menu, which should modify the
"Defaultdepth" section of that file.

Cheers!

Andrew.

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Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS
110M/GeForce Go 7300]"
        Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
        Defaultdepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   1
                Modes           "1440x900"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   4
                Modes           "1440x900"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   8
                Modes           "1440x900"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   15
                Modes           "1440x900"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   16
                Modes           "1440x900"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   24
                Modes           "1440x900"
        EndSubSection
EndSection


On Nov 26, 2007 3:24 PM, Don Kelly <karfai at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is the Ottawa, Canada Linux Users Group
> (http://www.oclug.on.ca).  There are likely to be regular attendees
> who use Ubuntu.
>
> Don Kelly/
>
>
>
> On Nov 26, 2007 3:17 PM, robert <radornato at rogers.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new to Ubuntu and Linux and enjoying it heaps.  It's (odd as this
> > sounds) one of the most exciting things I've played with on my computer
> > in years.  I love the tinker-ability and its DIY quality. I'm running
> > Ubuntu 7.10 exclusively on a stock HP Pavilion 7965 with an ATI
> > All-in-Wonder and a Samsung 515v monitor.  I have two questions:
> >
> > 1) While the Live disk's load screen appears to recognize that my
> > monitor works best 1024x768-60Hz, the install on my boot drive sets off
> > the "not ideal settings" message on my monitor during the load screen.
> > My searches through the community docs have not yet turned up any
> > solutions to this quirk.  Has anyone encountered and/or solved this?
> >
> > 2) Is there a Linux or Ubuntu Club in Ottawa?  My Google searches
> > haven't turned up anything.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Rob Adornato
> >
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