Screen resolution Problum

[hep3005]

Hi

MY pc config:

PIII 800Mhz
384MB SD ram
8MB SIS 6326
15" monitor Philips (104s) 800x600


Throuhout the installation & post installation the screen resolution was not correct. The Vga was ditected & the necessary drivers were loaded but the problum exists. i tried correcting this by adjusting through the control center.
Played with the resolution & various refresh rates. This did not work.

Cheers

[Rog131]

Re: Screen resolution Problum

Have you tried to reconfigure xserver:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

and when you come to:

If there are some resolutions you would not like the X server to use even if your hardware is capable of them, remove them from the list below. Removing all of them is effectively the same as removing none, since in both cases the X server will attempt to use the highest possible resolution.

Select the video modes you would like the X server to use.

And choose 800x600.

or

Backup xorg.conf first !

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_my_backup

Edit /etc/x11/xorg.conf


There should be something like this:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Something Technologies, Inc"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Restart

Note
dpkg-reconfigure makes backupfile:

xorg.conf -> xorg.conf.20060724102828
(year month day hour minutes seconds)


so if something went wrong:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx /etc/X11/xorg.conf

or

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf_my_backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[hep3005]

Re: Screen resolution Problum

Thanks a lot for the above tip. It worked perfectly on the mechine...
Cheers