Tadeusz Cantwell wrote:
> Hi,
>> I updated Ubuntu 8.04, which caused my screen resolution to change to 640x480.
>> I posted this on the ubuntuforums and was told it was a xorg.conf issue
>>http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843723>> I tried to understand this http://www.linux.com/feature/118108 but couldn't
>> I am an idiot computer user, please write simple advice/instructions!
probably a simple fix might be to run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xorg". That should be able to auto-detect your screen size.
Most of the default answers should be ok, make sure the keyboard layout
is correct though.
Otherwise, you will need to manually edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
Diarmuid.
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