Have you tried 7.10? It includes xrandr which lets you set the resolution on the fly. <br>Example: <br>xrandr -s 1024x768<br><br>You don't even need to sudo it.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Zach <<a href="mailto:netrek@gmail.com">netrek@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">For some reason I can get a screen resolution of 1024x768 on my laptop<br>
if I boot with the Ubuntu 6.06 Live CD (until I get a new machine<br>
following hardware failure), however when I use the Ubuntu 7.04 CD it<br>
forces me to no more than 800x600 (both at 24 bpp color depth). When I<br>
go into System->Preferences->Screen Resolution it doesn't even list<br>
1024x768 as one of the options. I editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use<br>
the ati driver, xserver-xorg-video-ati, (I have an ATI Rage Maestro M3<br>
gfx card) but when I log back into X it still won't let me choose<br>
1024x768. I recall there's a way using key commands to change the<br>
resolution mode back and forth, does anyone know what the key<br>
sequence is? I also recall there is a key sequence that forces X to<br>
restart does anyone know what this is? I would prefer to use Ubuntu<br>
7.04 (6.06 won't allow me to install Adobe Flash Plugin in Firefox fr<br>
some reason) plus in 6.06 I notice this weird jitteriness where the CD<br>
will be caching to the swap and reading/writing into the ramdisk in<br>
physical memory and the mouse cursor will randomly move around - quite<br>
odd. One other problem I notice in 7.04 is that in a certain spot on<br>
the LCD (about 2.5" in from the right side and about half way down I<br>
see this distortion that is moving - it is only a few pixels area but<br>
it cycles through about 1.5 to 2" of the other pixels in the column<br>
going up and down. I don't notice this when booting into the 6.06 Live<br>
CD. I hope it isn't damaging my LCD, I never noticed this problem<br>
until now. Attached is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf which Ubuntu creates.<br>
Here is the lspci info on my gfx card:<br>
<br>
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility<br>
M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])<br>
Subsystem: Dell Latitude C600<br>
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11<br>
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]<br>
I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]<br>
Memory at fdffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]<br>
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fd000000 [disabled] [size=128K]<br>
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 2.0<br>
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2<br>
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