Re: Screen Resolution
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Koh Choon Lin <kohchoonlin0@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In terminal run the following command from root user.
>> dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
>>
>> Here you can change default screen resolution.
>
> I got this message:
>
> xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised configuration
> file; backup in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20090219031522
>
> Running without the high piority leads to questions pertaining to
> mouse, keyboard only. I noticed recent versions of Debian based
> distros have this problem too (ie. no configuration details in the
> file x.org).
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> --
> Koh Choon Lin
>
>
>> You can switch to higher resolution by ALT+CTRL++ key combination or can
>> switch to lower resolution by ALT+CTRL+ - key combination
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Koh Choon Lin <kohchoonlin0@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I am unfamiliar with the workings of a GUI. Anyone stuck at 1024x768
>>> with the newly released Debian? How do I change it to one, say
>>> 1280x1024?
>
Your desktop environment should have a preferences tool for this -
certainly KDE and Gnome do. Is the resolution you want not given as an
option?
What graphics card/driver are you using? I've noticed (may be coincidence)
that machines I've had with NVidia cards never get the full range of
possible resolutions detected automatically. In this case, nvidia-settings
will allow you to set resolution, and several other things.
Nye
(PS. I'm of the opinion that autoconfiguring Xorg should have been left
until it's a bit more robust, since now it just means that you often
*still* have to mess aroung with Xorg.conf, only now there isn't a nicely
commented existing file to modify.)
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