Re: Screen Aspect Ratio

["Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net>]

On 10/04/2012 06:17 AM, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good time of the day, Stephen.
>
>
> You wrote:
>
> > As a result of my stupidity in attempting to modify the screen
> > drivers I have managed to change my display into something really
> > ugly.
> >
> > The aspect ratio is off and the number of available fonts is really
> > limited. (I also have OpenSUSE 12.2 on another HD and the screen is
> > normal, leading me to conclude that the problem lies in Debian)
> >
> > I have switched to Debian and am wondering what display utilities are
> > available?  Google hasn't been on any help
>
> If You did some config. modifications by a normal user, then You can
> simply move all the user's home dir. content to another place and then
> relogin.
>
> If did that under root user, then You have to reconfigure those
> services, for example by simple removal of the config.s to safe place
> and restart the service, OR using debian package reconfigurator, or
> download from Internet its options OR reinstall the package having
> purged it previously.
>
>
> Sthu.
I think that I have located the problem.  The monitor resolution is set 
at 1280x1024 by Debian.  Also there are only four solutions listed in 
System Settings/Size and Orientation.

I have an OpenSUSE 12.2 installatopn on another hadr drive in the systen 
and it's resolution is 1680x1050 with eleven additional different 
resolutions.

I had a screen resolution of 1680x1024 for the Debian desktop before I 
started trying to change the dcreen drivers.  That's what I would like 
to get back, but don't have any idea how to accomplish this.  I did look 
at the Synaptic Package Manager logs and removed the mistakes that I 
made and reinstalled the packages I'd removed, but that didn't correct 
the problem.

I would assume that there may be a configuration file lurking somewhere 
that has to be edited, but I am leery of making any changes, as I 
clearly don't know what I'm doing.

Any assistance will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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