[xu][ku][u]buntu screen resolutions

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neutrino15

Junior Member
Hello,

I installed parallels RC3, and have had nothing but trouble in linux.:mad: I posted for many issues, but this one is just annoying. I want to add the macbook 1280x800 res, so I edit the xorg.conf, I add a custom res.. Then i select the res in the display manager... Nothing happens. It says "is this setting ok?" with the yes/revert buttons... The resolution does not change.

Even before you get fancy with parallels tools.. this should work...

Am i doing somthing wrong?:(


-Jordan
 
Hard to say from that if yoiu are or not. But there are NO tools for Linux yet, so you do need to pick a resolution that is standard and perhaps slightly smaller than the native resolution of the Mac you are using. So it is like a very large window, but not 100% maxed out. That's what I had to do for all my different non XP OS's. That seemed to fix my issues. Good luck.
 
I installed ubuntu on my macbook today (dual boot), i used this to EASILY switch to 1280 x 800 res :

sudo software-properties -e universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install 915resolution

It will take affect after restart - you will be able to select the higher res.

I really hope it works!

cheers
chrisj303
 
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