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?