wrong sreen resolution

[David Fox]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Doug Stewart <dastew at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Since I got on answer let me ask a simpler question.
>
> what file should I edit to change the screen resolution?

I suppose you could copy the working xorg.conf file
(/etc/x11/xorg.conf) from the install where it is working to the other
one.

I did just that when I installed 64-bit hardy over the weekend
(previous install was debian lenny, 32 bit). Although the graphics
card is a little bit different (prior was an athlon tbird 32 bit
install, nvidia FX 5200 card, nwe system an ECS 6100 mainboard, with
geforce 6100) it works, mostly.

Besides, simply doing a dpkg -reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't do it
on a hardy install. I tried it, and it didn't ask any questions about
resolution, monitor type, anything like that, only questions on
keyboard and mouse settings. The original xorg.conf file didn't have
anything really helpful to go on.