OK, gonna ask you guys cos it's driving me nuts, I installed Ubuntu and Mint, that went fine, bit the biggest resolution they offered was 800x600...
Anyone know why??
What's your graphics card?
My guess is that a graphics driver didn't get installed.
dunno about ubuntu or mint, but check out your xorg.conf, it should contain something like this
Section "Screen"
...
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
...
you can put any res you want in the Modes line (default one first), and you can switch between them using ctrl-alt +/-
if your xorg.conf doesn't have any of that, it's probably auto detected, and auto detection can go wrong. in that case you could google for whatever graphics card you have (or if its a netbook/laptop, for your specific model) and see if someone already made a working config for that
of course drivers also have to be installed but at least ubuntu installs all of them by default I think
mine has about 2 pixs off the edge. thats all. i have it set to 1280x 768 or something like that....
Try to get a tarball of your graphics driver for ubuntu. Don't know so much about mint
What graphics card do you have?
(2009-06-14, 03:17 AM)Jaze Wrote: [ -> ]Try to get a tarball of your graphics driver for ubuntu. Don't know so much about mint
It would be the same as mint is based off of Ubuntu
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Open a Terminal and type:
xrandr -q
So you can see your resolution sizes available, to switch to any type
xrandr -s 14 ### Change to the Resolution No 14
xrandr -s 0 ### Roll Back to Original Resolution
Hope Help You.