The first suggestion, clicking on the default checkbox in screen resolution, did not help. I haven't tried the second method yet. - Joey On 2/3/07, Tom Marble <tmarble at info9.net> wrote: > > Joey Rockhold wrote: > > I am running 2 Ubuntu machines. I have them both hooked to a KVM > > switch. When I boot either of them up, and I do not have the KVM set to > > those particular machines, they boot up in 640x480 mode (or 800x600). > > Yet if the KVM switch is on those computers while they boot, I get my > > full 1280x1024 resolution. Can anyone direct me to how to lock down the > > resolution I want? > > On my feisty (pre-release) system one can change change the default > resolution > in the Gnome menu: System | Control Center, then click on "Screen > Resolution" > and select the default. > > The "old school" (and perhaps simpler) way to do this is by editing > /etc/X11/xorg.conf (save the current version first!). > > You will find a section like this: > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Default Screen" > Device "Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics > Controller" > Monitor "Generic Monitor" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1680x1050" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" > "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > For each instance of the line "Modes" insure that you have only the > resolution(s) that you want. > > HTH, > > --Tom > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070210/2c8bf1c0/attachment.htm