Newb help - DNS and Screen resolution help. [SOLVED]

[Altimit]

I've messed around with Fedora Linux and Gentoo a tiny bit but other than that I have little to no experience.

I currently have two problems. The first is that while I seem to be connected to the network with DHCP working fine, I can't get to anything except through it's IP address so my guess is that I need to set up some DNS settings or something. How do I do this?

My second problem is that at 1024x768 I can only set my refresh rate to 60 (I should be able to go to 85). and I can't set my resolution above that. I'd like to be able to set my resolution to 1152x864 at 75Hz. How would I go about doing that?

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

[Zerries]

Re: Newb help - DNS and Screen resolution help.

Hello. Not sure how to help you with your DNS problem.

As for your resolution/refresh rate problem though I think you'll be needing to run the xorg config again. Do this by typing

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

into the console. Just follow it through step by step and it should give you the options to fix your resolution and change the refresh rate.

Hope this helps.

[Altimit]

Re: Newb help - DNS and Screen resolution help. [SOLVED]

Thanks, that fixed it. The DNS problem turned out to be a bug with my router's configuration that I forgot to change last time I reset it so now both of those problems are fixed.

[sharke]

Re: Newb help - DNS and Screen resolution help. [SOLVED]

To set dns goto menu> system settings>network settings and check to see if your dns server is correct if not change yo correct settings
Regards
Sharke