I have just taken delivery of a Dell 24" screen which is supposed to run at 1920 X 1200 at 60Hz. It works in XP on two PC but I would like to use it at this resolution with the following Linux Distros on one PC:

Xubuntu64
Xubuntu32
Agnula/Demudi (32 bit)
64 Studio (64 bit debian based distro

)

When I go to display settings>Screen Resultion

the highest resultion available is 1280 x 1024

64 Studio just refuses to boot up altogther, saying that I I need to adjust the screen res to 1920 x 1200 at 60Hz for it to boot up.

How can I get the Dell Screen to work at 1920 x 1200?

My Graphics card can handle the resolution in XP.

Do I need to find out more about my new screen and make the appropriate amendments to some file?

OR

Do I have to reinstall all the above distros again?

Many thanks.

you'll need to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. usually it's pretty obvious what you'll need to change, just make sure you know all the relevant info such as sync rates etc..

cheers
Dave

Change the Videocard Driver..... from display setting->Screen Resolution


HASMUKH

Thanks for that guys,

I can understand about editing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file but how do I change the video card driver? there seesm to be no option for doing that in DIsplay setting> Screen Res.

Can someone point me in the right direction please on how to make the correct adjustments to the xorg.conf file please.

If I do change the screen driver, will I be able to use teh XP boot on this screen, probably not.