[Eug-lug] Linux hates big monitor

[Allen Brown]

I would like to know if this is unique to one or more distributions
such as Ubuntu.  Or if it is simply a function of one or more
desktops such as KDE.  I wouldn't be surprised if it is the latter.
If so, changing distributions won't help.

So before changing your install, try switching to xfce4.  You can
get it by "apt-get install xubuntu-desktop".
-- 
Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
   It is not what we do, but also what we do not do,
   for which we are accountable. --- Molière


Jared Ubelhor wrote:
> OMFG This is stupid. I don't understand why this has to be so complicated.
> I'm downloading SUSE again.
> 
> 
> On 7/11/07, *Allen Brown* <abrown at peak.org <mailto:abrown at peak.org>> wrote:
> 
>     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 <mailto:abrown at peak.org>  
>     http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
>     <http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/%7Eabrown/>
>        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!