screen resolution

sulekha · 10-30-2007, 11:45 PM

Hi all,

recently i encountered a problem , sometimes when the computer gets
booted and when we get login screen ,the screen resolution will be changed completely.I am not able to change the settings via graphically,then i have to reboot then i will be able to change settings graphically.

my questions are as follows

1)why is this happening??
2)how to change screen resolution settings via command line in ubuntu dapper???

oskar · 10-31-2007, 12:16 AM

That sometimes happens to me too. I have never bothered to check why. Logging out and in again fixes it for me. If that doesn't work, try to kill the x-server with ctrl-alt-backspace. It should automatically start back up.