Hi team

I am running Ubuntu 5.04 (and loving it!) and I would like to have my monitor at a resolution of 1152x864 and a refresh rate of 70Hz.

When i set it to a resolution of 1152x864 i can only select 75 Hz. My monitor is capable of 75 Hz, but when I set it to that refresh rate it will run fine for a while and then later there will be a high pitched sound from the monitor (did this with XP too)

How can I achieve a resolution of 1152x864 with a refresh of 70? I am a linux newb and would really appreciate some clear and careful instructions

My monitor is a viewsonic e70 CRT.

Thanks.

edit: Actually, please wait for confirmation that this will actually work before you do this. This might be different than the previous distro I was using.

Hi Redmoon -

I'm also relatively new to ubuntu, and I'm pretty happy with it.

I believe the best way to force your monitor to use a non-default resolution is by editing your xorg.conf file, which is located under /etc/X11. You need to be logged in as root/superuser to do this. So start off by logging in using the "su" command. Then cd over to /etc/X11.

First I'd back up the xorg.conf file by using the command "cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.backup". (In case a problem occurs and you can only access the console, simply remove xorg.conf and rename xorg.conf.backup to xorg.conf).

Open up xorg.conf with a text editor and go down to the "monitor" section. Within this section, there should also be a setting for resolution (look for yours, 1152 x 864). I think you can simply add "@ 70 hz" to the end of the resolution and it will now set 70 hz as the default refresh rate.

If you need more detailed instuctions than that, let me know.

ok great,

if you could post EXACTLY how to do that (with an example please) that would be excellent.

Thankyou.

check out this link. It worked for me.

thanks so much! it worked!