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Old 07-17-2010, 05:37 PM   #1
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Mixed and matched K/Ubuntu install, beaucoup GRUBs, want to add a new screen size.


How would one go about it? Follow the GNOME Ubuntu tips, the ones for Kubuntu, or both? Or would it be easier to just roll back to a GRUB that uses GDM's splash and login and see if the settings I've already attempted are really working (and it's just the KDE stuff that's blocking them).

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Old 07-25-2010, 07:54 AM   #2
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And after I switch back from KDM to GDM...this happens

  1. Typing sudo dpg-reconfigure phish etc in Terminal only results in a message that dpkg has found a hand-edited xorg.conf (or two or three) and immediately makes a backup timestamped to the last minute I run this command. Of course the one it creates in its place has the same resolutions as I've had since installing, which are sans the one or two I know from following several tutorials and walkthroughs that my laptop is fully capable of rendering for me.
  2. Shortly after I do hand-edit xorg.conf and restart xserver, or my system, Firefox windows draw slowly -- a tick or two slower per graphical element than even Konqueror or Gwenview, and on my lappie, that's slow!

I'm wondering if I could send the outputs of the several appropriate system commands to someone who's gotten this all to work on one or two machines, and they could send me back a correctly-edited and -customized xorg.conf with the Monitor and Display sections ready to deliver the higher resolutions I'm looking to add.

Worth asking, from where I see myself at this point in the process. Doesn't hurt to ask.

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