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gnome-control-center package

  1. Bug #240916
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 240916

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TheZorch (thezorch) wrote : Re: [Bug 240916] Re: can't configure display resolution (monitor, graphics card) manually in gui

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:03 PM, mahjongg <email address hidden> wrote:
> I was finally able to give an old laptop the 1024 x 768 resolution I
> knew the LCD could do (from the 800 x 600 + large gray border around it
> it did do because Ubuntu 9.10 did a "monitor not detected" on me) by
> adding an xorg.conf text file in /etc/X11 with just the following few
> lines only:
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Configured Monitor"
> HorizSync 60-60
> VertRefresh 43-117
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Monitor "Configured Monitor"
> Device "Configured Video Device"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>

I keep my settings from my original xorg.conf file around to copy &
paste into a new xorg.conf whenever I reinstall Ubuntu. Otherwise, I
wouldn't be able to enable the Nvidia drivers properly with it.

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