In the last half year I've been using Kubuntu on my machine there was a weird problem I couldn't solve till yesterday...
For some reason Kubuntu always "thought" that my little ProSavage 8 integrated video card was unable to offer a resolution higher than 1024x768 dpi. When I installed a ATI Radeon video card it said I couldn't get anything higher than 1188(?) x I don't know what even if the same video card let me get a resolution of 1440(?) x something on Windows.
I had an empty xorg.conf file on Kubuntu and after reading some posts about editing that file I saved the config info (see below) there. Now when I turned on my PC to work with some documents, I noticed that I finally got a 1280x1024 dpi as my default resolution. All I had to do was adding the SubSection "Display" contents to the xorg.conf file. That's amazing, I never thought it'd be so damn easy, I even imagined I had to install some prosavage_smb module or something like that...
Of course, I gotta say it'd have been better to get a ready to use xorg.conf file from the very beginning, but you know, on Windows I might have to actually install a new driver and wait for the monitor reaction to check if it'd ever work or not. Some may say that I'd be forced to uninstall and reinstall the video card. Now I know that sometimes the easy way is the only way to make something work as expected...
For some reason Kubuntu always "thought" that my little ProSavage 8 integrated video card was unable to offer a resolution higher than 1024x768 dpi. When I installed a ATI Radeon video card it said I couldn't get anything higher than 1188(?) x I don't know what even if the same video card let me get a resolution of 1440(?) x something on Windows.
I had an empty xorg.conf file on Kubuntu and after reading some posts about editing that file I saved the config info (see below) there. Now when I turned on my PC to work with some documents, I noticed that I finally got a 1280x1024 dpi as my default resolution. All I had to do was adding the SubSection "Display" contents to the xorg.conf file. That's amazing, I never thought it'd be so damn easy, I even imagined I had to install some prosavage_smb module or something like that...
Of course, I gotta say it'd have been better to get a ready to use xorg.conf file from the very beginning, but you know, on Windows I might have to actually install a new driver and wait for the monitor reaction to check if it'd ever work or not. Some may say that I'd be forced to uninstall and reinstall the video card. Now I know that sometimes the easy way is the only way to make something work as expected...
Code:
Section "Device" Identifier "S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]" Driver "savage" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Configured Monitor" VertRefresh 56.0 - 70.0 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Monitor "Configured Monitor" Device "Configured Video Device" DefaultDepth 24 Option "metamodes" "1280x720 +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0"#; 640x480 +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x720 +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0" EndSubSection EndSection