Screen resolution 640x480 only

Type this in your terminal

$ sudo xrandr -s 1280x1024

Find a terminal through

Applications menu on top taskbar - Accessories - Terminal

This should give you a Command line prompt in a Command/Terminal console/window

Good luck and have fun
Regards from
Tom :)

I did all that and it's still not working.

Hi Nishant

Try do to this: Modify the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf as following:

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Device "nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro]"
 Monitor "Generic Monitor"
 DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                   Modes "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Maybe it helps.
Peter

The important lines are the three lines

 SubSection "Display"
             Modes "1280x800" (choose your resolution)
 EndSubSection

Peter

I am experiencing a similar problem. When I tried

$ sudo xrandr -s 1280x1024

 I was informed that

"Size 1280x1024 not found in available modes"

I also tried 1024x768 and got the same message.

When attempting to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I can't seem to get teh additional lines to stick.

Any suggestions.

Hi techdog

I'm not sure if I understood your sentence "I can't seem to get teh additional lines to stick.". English is not my mother tongue.

You have to capture the three lines.
Peter

Try,
$ xrandr --addmode S-video 1024x768

if no S-video

$ xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x768

Peter,
           I am not able to save the file xorg.conf after modifying it.

To be able to save any changes to your xorg.conf file you need to run an editor as root you must give the sudo command.

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
(if the system ask you for a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

or

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Hello guys...thanks a lot for your inputs, however, after doing everything you told me, my computer gave me an error message during start up saying that its running in low graphics mode and need to rectify this problem. I had to reconfigure the graphics to what it was previously. What next?

May be I need to install a graphics driver?

Try
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

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> Question #57821 on xorg in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+question/57821
>
> Nishant Dayal gave more information on the question:
> May be I need to install a graphics driver?
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I have done that in vain.

Please try to use envy package to setup your video card...

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
(if the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk

You will find an item into your menu (i don't remember where) to run envy.

Here question and answers related:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+questions?field.search_text=envy&field.sort=RELEVANCY&field.sort-empty-marker=1&field.actions.search=Search&field.language=en&field.language=it&field.language-empty-marker=1&field.status=OPEN&field.status=NEEDSINFO&field.status=ANSWERED&field.status=SOLVED&field.status-empty-marker=1

If you are still having trouble with this then please post it as a new question. Only the most recent questions tend to get looked at so posting/reposting a question just before america arrives online gives the best chance of getting a good few answers.

If the problem has been resolved then please follow the link to the forum thread and mark it as Solved.

Good luck and many regards from
Tom :)

Yep, sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf ist the solution regarding my comment.

Hope it helps.
Peter

Thank you guys for all your help, however, what finally helped me took me by surprise:

I reinstalled Ubuntu 8.10. A new problem cropped up. The screen would go blank after login so I removed compiz after rebooting in recovery mode and then starting a failsafe session.

The correct sequence would be:

Reboot in recovery mode
Select "Session" at the login page, select "failsafe session"
type the following in the root shell prompt:
sudo apt-get remove compiz
sudo apt-get remove compiz-core
exit
resume normal boot

This is for those having trouble with graphics on a Dell dimension desktop.

Once again, thank you guys for your inputs.