[Novalug] further adventures with the Compaq presario T1800 laptop screen

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Fri May 30 20:36:59 EDT 2008


How about copying the config file from Puppy to Ubuntu?

JIM

Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> On Sat, 24 May 2008, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> 
> BD >
> BD >By copying the display related commands from xorg.conf of puppy linux to 
> BD >xorg.conf or Ubuntu I have now been able to bring up 
> BD >System>Preferences>Screen Resolution application which now actually 
> BD >lists the 1024 x 768 choice. but when I select that choice and click the 
> BD >Apply button nothing happens.
> BD >
> BD >Any suggestions?
> BD >
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> 
> Well I rebooted yet again and selected a XFce session and wonder of 
> wonders the Xfce screen is 1024 x 768. So I am wondering now if the 
> problme with Gnome is that this machine has too little memory(384 meg) to 
> do a Gnome desktop in 1024 x 768 24 bit color depth.
> 
> Before I copied the screen and monitor sections from the Puppy 
> xorg.conf XFce did not do 1024 x 768 either. 
> 
> Will try reducing color depth as a choice and see if Gnome co-operates.
> 
> 
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