[Eug-lug] Linux hates big monitor

[Allen Brown]

I had a similar experience.  As far as I could tell Ubuntu wasn't
even reading the xorg.conf file when it came to setting the screen
resolution.

I got lots of suggestions about editing that file.  All were worthless.

Turns out KDE ignores that file and has its own ideas about screen
resolution.

Here is a critical excerpt from that conversation:

 >> BTW, the KDE desktop plays with the randr.  KDM on my laptop defaults
 >> to 3000x1200 (spread over two screens) and when I log in, it changes
 >> to 1400x1050.  I have no idea how to control that.
 >
 > This could very well be the problem.  It feels like the
 > Microshaftization of Linux.  "We know what you want better than
 > you do."  Gnome and now evidently KDE are badly infected by this
 > scourge.
 >
 > OK, I found it.  "System Settings"/"Monitor & Display"/"Size,
 > Orientation..."

The other thing you should look at is xrandr.
Xrandr(3) man page is in the libxrandr-dev package.
-- 
Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
   Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. ---Aldous Huxley


Jared Ubelhor wrote:
> Arrg. If this monitor weren't so awesome it wouldn't be worth the trouble.
> 
> Long story short.. something broken in my computer with evil ATI card, 
> so I'm using my old PC (with nvidia card).
> 
> I can not, can not, can not, can not, get Ubuntu to run at 1680x1050 
> even though it is in xorg.conf.
> I've installed the drivers, and even ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.
> 
> The only thing that has worked so far (don't ask my why I tried this) is:
> 1) booted to recovery mode.
> 2) mv xorg.conf xorg.fnoc > starx
> To my surprise, with no xorg.conf to read from, X started up and let me 
> choose 1680x1050, but of course there was no hardware acceleration!
> 
> Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!
> 
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