For some reason, no matter which window manager I use, the monitor resolution seems to stay at 1024x768, which isn't optimal for my monitor. I've removed all mention of this resolution from /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replaced it with 1280x1024, but the old resolution remains. The new resolution isn't even listed in the "Desktop Settings" menu of KDE.

Does anyone know how I can change my default resolution?

Can you copy and paste your xorg.conf file, just so we are all sure there is nothing wrong with it? Also, telling us what monitor you have and your graphics card would help a lot.

I suggest that you check the horizontal and vertical refresh frequency settings. The higher resolution probably requires a lower refresh rate.

If you're still using the default xorg.conf shipped with Slackware, it's going to be using the VESA driver, which "tops out" at 1024x768.

Make a backup of it, and then try running `xorgcfg` (as root) which will either generate you an acceptably useful config, or it'll clearly fail.

With modern hardware, just about everything X needs to know can be auto-detected, which makes xorgcfg much more reliable than it was in former invocations.

(Note that I do mean `xorgcfg` and not `X -setup` or `xorgconfig` or `xorgsetup` as these are all separate utilities containing varying levels of insanity.)

I've found 'xorgcfg' to generate config files that are good, but are pretty much exactly the same as those generated by 'xorgsetup'. However, 'xorgcfg' is somewhat harder to use, and IMO less foolproof.

Also, I wouldn't say that any of these utilities generate insanity, all they do is spit out the same level of sanity as is put into them. Put insanity in and you get insanity out, you know.

Although I much prefer 'xorgsetup', I recommend that people try them all out and see for themselves which one they like. I know some people like 'xorgconfig', which I find of not much use in generating anything usable, but then that's probably because I don't have all the things that it's asking for. Who knows, maybe if you actually have the info, it will generate something very usable.

The best generator except my own hands which I have yet found is nvidia-xconfig (only for nvidia users).

"Harder to use"? Are you sure you're thinking of the right tool? You run it and you get exactly two buttons to click on... one that saves things and one that exits without writing a new file. How is that hard to use?

I don't know which one you're using, but there's definitely more than two buttons.

Okay, I just went back and looked at it again. You're right, it does have a number of buttons, but... All those other buttons are if something goes horribly wrong, which tends to not happen. I was going to make a screenshot so I could mark it up with "ignore these buttons" and "just click here" but it turns out it's not so easy to get X to let you make a screenshot with the way that starts up.

Basically, the graphical window will show a video card, a monitor, a PC, a keyboard, and a mouse with lines between them in obvious places demonstrating the layout. At the bottom right of this is a Quit button. If the display looks reasonable, you don't really need to do anything else, so you click the Quit button and it will then ask if you'd like to write the config to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Otherwise the new config will be in /root/xorg.conf.net (which gets written to stdout so you can see it).

I get the feeling a lot of people are overthinking things when it comes to this tool.

Subsequent to this, macavity just turned me onto something that might well apply in this case. I didn't need it for my laptop, but the symptom reported sounds a bit familiar to this scenario if you've actually switched to the intel or i810 driver from the vesa driver.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...Graphics_Cards

I Have found I like using xorgcfg in textmode, There Might be some downfall
I am not aware of but it has served my purposes well for now


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$xorgcfg -textmode

I would'nt do this in X though