On 10/22/07, Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
I did some poking around over the weekend and discovered /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
In this file I discovered essentially the same video display text I remembered from editing XFree86 config files. As root I backed up the original xorg.conf, then edited all the "Mode" lines in xorg.conf to only have "1024x768" and "800x600" in them, keeping 800x600 just as a backup alternative. "1024x768" is set as the default for all color depths.
Now not only does the regular desktop stay at 1024x768, the graphical login screen has also become 1024x768.
It wasn't the Ubuntu "the end user is always an idiot" philosophy, but it worked.
That was doing by hand what my tip of using "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" would have done through "official" software with a text interface. You can select and change most of the modeline stuff you want, if you want, or you could just select the resolutions you want. Also, by using the dpkg system it automatically makes a datestamp-named backup for the file.
Jon.