I will reply to the question once I get home(I am at school right now).


>From: John Franks <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Harish Narayanan <[log in to unmask]>
>CC: Kevin Byun <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: setting the screen resolution
>Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:19:40 -0600
>
>On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:01 -0500, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> > Kevin Byun wrote:
> > > I am having a trouble with the screen resolution with my laptop on
> > > Linux.  The setting on my laptop is currently 800 X 600 from the
> > > installation of linux.  However, I need to have the resolution setting
> > > to be 1280 X 768.  The setting on "Resolution" application doesn't
> > > show the selection of 1280 X 768.
> > > I don't have the file Xorg in /etc/X11 directory and I am lost.  Could
> > > you experts show me the ways to fixing this problem?
>
>
> > If you're tentative about tweaking configuration files, try running the
> > display configuration application (as root) again. One of the tabs on
> > the top (I am just guessing, I haven't seen it in a while) is hardware
> > settings. Just choose your monitor type as 'Generic LCD 1280x768',
> > restart X and you should have that option the next time you run the
> > resolution chooser.
>
>
>The paragraph above is the key advice.  However, 1280x768 is not a
>correct aspect ratio, so it will not be a choice.  Did you mean
>1024x768? or 1280xsomething_else?
>
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