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Can't Change Resolution in 10.04

Asked by Abhishek Acharyya

Till 9.10 everything was fine. But with 10.04 my resolution sometimes goes to 1280X1024 and then again back to 800X600. I wouldn't change it back to 1280X1080. Please help me.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

Thanks

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subzero (subzero9) said : 		#2

Dear friend,

    Please first try to reconfigure the xserver by typing ->sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Then you should try from the menu in System > Administration > Hardware Drivers. Try to see if there is a driver waiting to be installed.
GOOD LUCK.

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Abhishek Acharyya (a1acharyya) said : 		#3

This is for actionparship. This is what I got you will able to help me with this.
*-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 [S3 UniChrome Pro]
       vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=64 mingnt=2
       resources: memory:f0000000-f3ffffff(prefetchable) memory:fd000000-fdffffff memory:feaf0000-feafffff(prefetchable)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1085719.html

You will need an xorg.conf file to make it work. I don't expect 3D acceleration will work (desktop effects etc.) but you can certainly get a finer resolution. You will need to run:

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and paste in the sample xorg.conf on the forum, save the new file then reboot. Should be ok.

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