Re: New installation - cannot increase the screen resolution

Hi Johannes,    

  Thanks for your info - I did follow your guide and BINGO !    

  The screen now looks nice & sharp as it's drawing 1280x1024.    

  I didn't know that it's X config related, as I thought it's GNOME   issue - turns out GNOME is based on X stuffs - I'm completely   newbie to Debian world, though 've been using Unix for longtime.    

  Thanks !    

  Chan

Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:   -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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Chan Lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed Debian using DVD set from CheapBytes
> into a new HP Pavilion Slimline s3020n desktop. It has
> Nvidia GeForce 6150LE graphics adaptor driving 1280x1024
> resolution.
>
> Thrying to increase the screen resolution using the Screen
> resoultion preference tool, however, I cannot find any extra
> resolution option in the menu - only the basic resolution of
> 640x480 is available. The Samsung 19inch LCD screen can
> display 1280x1024 - how can I increase it ?

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I don't know what your 'Screen resolution preference tool' is. You probably have to 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' if you haven't tried already. Log out as ordinary user, switch to a console like tty1 and log in as root before doing so. After reconfiguration you'd have to restart the xserver with '/etc/init.d/kdm restart' or gdm, or whatever your X display manager is.

You do have xserver-xorg installed, don't you?

Johannes
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