re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768 [SOLVED]

2009-11-15 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Hi, I'd like to once again thank those of you who have responded to my earlier emails on the subject in question. The solution to my problem turned out to be an easy one. I upgraded to Squeeze which uses 'xserver-xorg-video-nv' version '1:2.1.14-2', which automatically sets the screen resolu

re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-14 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
I'd like to thank all those that have responded to my email about setting screen resolution to 1366x768 the other day. Here's what I did... 1. Stopped gdm; 2. Downloaded the nVidia driver off their website ( NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.42-pkg1.run); 3. Downloaded and installed the linux-h

Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-14 Thread Bob
Modern xorg doesn't need a .conf file on the whole but I find that with funky screen sizes and quirky multi-monitor set-ups they are still necessary. I never quite got 1366x768 the best I've done is 1360x768, I've frequently seen it said that horizontal resolutions must be divisible by 8 and

Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:13:05PM -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 09-11-11 17:15:06, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen > > > resolution was automatically s

Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-11 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 14:32:32 Alexander Kaphuk wrote: I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen resolution was automatically set to 1024x768. This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the output of 'xrandr'. The nati

Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-11 Thread shampavman.cg
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: Hi, I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen resolution was automatically set to 1024x768. This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the output of 'xrandr'. Th

Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-11 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-11 17:15:06, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > > Hi, > > I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen > > resolution was automatically set to 1024x768. > > This resolution seems to be the highest available b

Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > Hi, > I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen > resolution was automatically set to 1024x768. > This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the > output of 'xrandr'. > The native screen resolut

Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 14:32:32 Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen > resolution was automatically set to 1024x768. > This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the output of > 'xrandr'. > The native screen resolution for m

re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-11 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Hi, I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen resolution was automatically set to 1024x768. This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the output of 'xrandr'. The native screen resolution for my laptop is 1366x768. I'd appreciate anyone suggesting how to go