Help with the widescreen? Tried a lot of threads nothing helps

amy

Hey I'm still fairly new to Linux.  I just installed Feisty on my computer and everything is working fine except for the screen resolution.  It is supposed to be 1440 x 900 but there is no option for it.  I messed around in the terminal and I was able to unleash more resolutions, but still no 1440 900.  Can someone please help?  I'm really new to the command line thing so if you could walk me through it it would be a great help!

(The graphics card is an nVidia GeForce4 4200)

You can simply add the resolution to your xorg.conf file.Code:
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Than add quot;1400x900quot; to each entry.

Or you can run this command:Code:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
and it should detect the highest screen resolution possible.  I just bought 2 new widescreen monitors yesterday and that is how I got them running.

Nope.  That didn't work.  The max resolution is still 1024x768

What kind of computer is this? Do you know what graphics card is in it? If not, type lspci into a Terminal and paste the output here, and I'll try to help.

OK. Firstly, when you run in a terminal the command

cat /etc/X11/Xorg.conf

What driver does it say you are using for your graphics card? Is it nv, nvidia, or vesa?

Secondly, what brand monitor?

The computer is a Dell.  Pretty old i guess but definately in amazing shape.  its got 1.5 gb ddr-sd, its a P4 2.66 Ghz.  The video card I ripped out of my old computer and it is an nVidia GeForce4 4200.   is installed on the slave drive in a two drive configuration (both IDE).
The monitor is a Norcent 19quot; (I never heard of them before but it works beautifully under XP (2ms refresh and wonderful colors)

I'll answer the rest of your questions in a minute or two as I had to reinstall ubuntu because i messed up the xorg file somehow (and a 15 minute install is better than fiddling around with code for hours for me)

Did you manually add the resolution to your xorg.conf file?

Look and see of you can enable a restricted video card driver in system gt; administration gt; restricted drivers manager .   That quot;mightquot; give you some more options.

TheMono: when i run that command it gives me it tells me there is no such file or directory.

Ek0nomik:  Yes and I failed miserably forcing me to reinstall  when it no longer booted correctly.

homergreg:  It did give me a few more resolutions but both of them were in the 800's.  I still have no 1440x900.

Did you try 1280X800?