Linux Screen Resolution

Frozencrow · 06-04-2009, 03:00 PM

Hello I have linux mint.. I am fairly new to linux and do not understand all the terms completley but i am a quick learner. I have a Radeon X1650 Graphics card and a fairly good monitor. which in windows i was able to get 1600x1400 screen resolution out of. At one point I even had Ubuntu 8.10 and it also allowed this resolution. But the upgrade came to 9.04. And everything said that the third party drivers were dropped. Which is all well and good but now the max resolution i can get is 1360x768.I would really like my high resolutions back. Is there any solution?

Rome5 · 06-07-2009, 05:20 PM

Where there any changes made to your xorg.conf file when you upgraded to 9.04? You should now be using a newer version of the xserver, which may require more detail in xorg or may require less. Just depends. If you would open a terminal and run the following commands, then post the output here, that would be helpful.

Code:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

06-04-2009, 03:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
Frozencrow Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 42 OS: Windows XP Home S3	Linux Screen Resolution Hello I have linux mint.. I am fairly new to linux and do not understand all the terms completley but i am a quick learner. I have a Radeon X1650 Graphics card and a fairly good monitor. which in windows i was able to get 1600x1400 screen resolution out of. At one point I even had Ubuntu 8.10 and it also allowed this resolution. But the upgrade came to 9.04. And everything said that the third party drivers were dropped. Which is all well and good but now the max resolution i can get is 1360x768.I would really like my high resolutions back. Is there any solution?

06-07-2009, 05:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
Rome5 Alternative Computing Team Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Denver.CO Posts: 311 OS: Arch linux	Re: Linux Screen Resolution Where there any changes made to your xorg.conf file when you upgraded to 9.04? You should now be using a newer version of the xserver, which may require more detail in xorg or may require less. Just depends. If you would open a terminal and run the following commands, then post the output here, that would be helpful. Code: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf __________________ Arch64 ~ PekWM Last edited by Rome5; 06-07-2009 at 05:29 PM.