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?