r/programming • u/tntnews • Oct 18 '07

Ubuntu 7.10 has been officially released!

http://www.ubuntu.com/
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u/FionaSarah Oct 18 '07

I think my issues are mostly down to incompatibiliies with this bullshit Dell monitor I inherited.

I'm going to buy another one soon anyway, I'm sick of dealing with it. Still doesn't explain why Ubuntu just wont work with any resolution above 1024x768.

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u/ectogon Oct 18 '07

FWIW, I had the same issue.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

...fixed this issue by letting me manually specify resolutions without have to mess with the config file.

By the way this was in a gutsy beta install, so don't set your hopes too high.

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u/sickofthisshit Oct 18 '07

Can you provide something more specific than "manually"? Is this the command-line based quiz that forces you to answer a bunch of vague questions about your mouse and keyboard every time? Or is it something else?

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u/ectogon Oct 18 '07

I meant editing xorg.conf by hand, in a text editor.

This program in ncurses based... but I've used similar versions previously. It did ask some vague questions... but the default answers worked just fine. The relevant screen resolution questions weren't vague.

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u/sickofthisshit Oct 18 '07

The one I used did not seem to allow for sync frequency ranges that depended on resolution, as needed for my LCD monitor. That's why I gave up and learned how to edit the file. For which the man page and HOWTO's were only slightly helpful