[Wylug-help] Ubuntu screen resolution incorrect

[Tim Jones]

It was a problem with the driver which I eventually managed to sort out with Graig's prompting.  I ended up on this page from the Ubuntu wiki for anyone who comes across a similar issue with screen stretching:  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI?highlight=%28+ati+%29
Thank you all for the help - fantastically quick!
Tim

----- Original Message ----
From: David Holden <dh at iucr.org>
To: wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
Cc: Yiannis Gatsoulis <menig at leeds.ac.uk>; Craig Hopkins <jha4coh at leeds.ac.uk>; Tim Jones <nutpeg2000 at yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, 10 January, 2007 12:22:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Ubuntu screen resolution incorrect



Have you tried running

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

to reset up the X server?

 Dave.




On Wednesday 10 January 2007 12:36 am, Yiannis Gatsoulis wrote:
> Craig Hopkins wrote:
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > Which laptop model do you have? The manufacturer's website should tell
> > you exactly which chipset it is.  If it is an ATI, then you can get
> > the proper driver from http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
>
> There is a driver for ati cards on the repository too... Search for
> fglrx and install the fglrx-control and xorg-driver-fglrx or something.
> Google for the differences between this and the "official" one from ati.
> Also have a look on the ubuntuguide. Btw, I am running Ubuntu 6.06
> (Dapper) with an ati Radeon 9700.... Did not have a problem with the
> vesa driver and nor with the fglrx... In fact with the fglrx I also have
> TV-out support....
>
> Yianni
>
> > Craig
> >
> > Tim Jones wrote:
> >> Hi Craig,
> >>
> >> I can't find a Display Manager but I have looked in the Device
> >> Manager and found an 'unknown (0x71c5)' device with ATI listed as the
> >> vendor.  It's under the 'Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express
> >> PCI Express Root Port' section.  Might that be the graphics card, and
> >> if so I guess it's not being correctly recognised.  What do you think?
> >>
> >> Tim
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----
> >> From: Craig Hopkins <jha4coh at leeds.ac.uk>
> >> To: Tim Jones <nutpeg2000 at yahoo.co.uk>
> >> Cc: wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
> >> Sent: Tuesday, 9 January, 2007 4:32:22 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Ubuntu screen resolution incorrect
> >>
> >> Hi Tim,
> >>
> >> Have you checked that Ubuntu is correctly identifying your card? I don't
> >> know my way around Ubuntu, but you should have a Display Manager that
> >> you can su into that will let you choose your graphics card. If it is
> >> selecting the right one, but still only limiting you to 1024x768, you
> >> might consider adding the dimensions to your xorg.conf file manually.
> >>
> >> Make a backup before you try this, but if you do the following as root:
> >>
> >> - load up your xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf)
> >> - look for the section labelled 'Section "Screen"' and within that there
> >> should be an entry called Modes under 'Subsection "Display"'.
> >> - before the "1024x768" entry add "1280x800" followed by a space. The
> >> speechmarks are important. The first resolution on the list is the one
> >> it goes for, so make sure it's *before* the 1024 entry
> >>
> >> Hope that helps,
> >>
> >> Craig
> >>
> >> Tim Jones wrote:
> >> > I've just installed Ubuntu 6.10 on my widescreen (1280 x 800) laptop
> >> > but Ubuntu is forcing the resolution to 1024 x 768 and doesn't offer
> >> > the correct resolution as an option. As a result the display is
> >> > horizontally stretched e.g. circles are shown as oval. Does anyone
> >> > know how I might go about sorting this out.  I have looked on the
> >> > Ubuntu wiki but unfortunately the help given is not clear to me as I'm
> >> > a novice in this area.  I have an Intel Core Duo processor with an ATI
> >> > Mobility Radeon X1600 256MB graphics card.  Any help is much
> >>
> >> appreciated.
> >>
> >> > Tim Jones
> >> >
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