> Hi, Folks -- > > I'm setting up a laptop as a Christmas gift for my sister; it's an Acer > Aspire 5250 with Radeon HD 6310. Netinstall of Squeeze went smoothly enough, > but the aspect ratio seems wrong (too wide; kinda squashed). Gnome and Xorg > are offering only resolutions of 1024x768 and 800x600. Both have this ratio, > such that items I know should appear round appear as ovals instead. > > I'd appreciate any help or pointers to existing help on this. > > Thanks kindly, > > -- > > -- Jeff -- <http://www.wellnow.com> > > "There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing > is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve." >
Hi Jeff, You can set your screen resolution using xrandr. You can easily find several howtos; after a quick search I found an ubuntu thread [1] and a ubuntu wiki page [2] that seemed appropriate to me (though I did not check extensively, I post them just to give you an idea). Just remember that those change will not survive a reboot, but you can automate the execution on every boot. The link I posted should explain this, too: for instance, you can paste them in /etc/gdm3/Init/Default. Hope this helps, Lorenzo [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1474910 [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution#Adding%20undetected%20resolutions -- Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CABqumk_ELXkv-XTkbPF_hWN30Y3jdhsJ5VgT4r3Djd_U=ms...@mail.gmail.com
