<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Kevin Meyer <<a href="mailto:fleetgoal@comcast.net">fleetgoal@comcast.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, I've loaded lucid lynx on an old Dell C600 notebook. Through the GUI config utility the max video res showing is 800x600. The screen is much more capable than that. I checked the Ubuntu blogs and there are instructions on how to fix this. One in particular involves editing the xorg.conf file. However, my machine doesn't have a xorg.conf file in the etc/X11 directory.</blockquote> <div> are you sure? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I tried running sudo xorg -configure but I get a fatal server error saying that server is already active for display 0. How can I get out of this mess? Can you help me to understand how xorg works better so I can fix this? Thanks. </blockquote><div> first turn off your X (ctrl+alt+f1, /etc/init.d/gdm stop, or kdm or whatever you use). X -configure turn on your X (startx or /etc/init.d/gdm start) which vga are you using (model/version/revision)? lspci | grep VGA EDID has a bug with some intel and ati cards. EDID is responsible to identify a lot of informations about your monitor. Some developers are fixing this problem. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I have all the needed info on the the ATI Mobility M3 chipset and the screen resolutions. Regards, Kevin _______________________________________________ <a href="mailto:xorg@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">xorg@lists.freedesktop.org</a>: X.Org support Archives: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg</a> Info: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> Your subscription address: <a href="mailto:apterixbr@gmail.com" target="_blank">apterixbr@gmail.com</a> </blockquote></div>