help wth screen resolution

[Chuckles]

Garry Trethewey wrote:
> How do I find out what my screen resolution actually is?

I assume your monitor doesn't tell you what its currently displaying in 
one of its menus................


>
> Ubuntu Feisty's menu System, Preferences, Screen Resolution says
> "  The X Server does not support the XRandR extension. Runtime 
> resolution changes to the display size are not available.  "
>
> Below is the relevant part of my xorg.conf.
>
> By ctrl-alt-keypad+ I can cycle through the options, but by doing this 
> I get 6 choices, not 7. So I don't know if I'm on "1280x1024"  or  
> "1152x921"
>
> If I'm going to do trial & error by editing xorg.conf, I presume I can 
> ignore all the
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        1    etc
> other than
>     DefaultDepth    24
>
> All this is in aid getting Gutsy to work as well as Feisty. I've kinda 
> given up on getting Gutsy to see my video card. Is it possible that 
> the radeon driver in Gutsy has reduced capabilities compared to the 
> one in Feisty. They wouldn't do that would they? (outrage)
>
> So if I buy a new card that Gutsy will recognise, I'd better find out 
> if whatever I'm geting now is what it does.
>
>
>
> #### Device section, Radeon dual card
> Section "Device"
>
>     Identifier    "Radeon_0"
>     Driver        "ati"
>     BusID        "PCI:1:0:0"
>     Screen        0
>
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier    "Radeon_1"
>     Driver        "ati"
>     BusID        "PCI:1:0:0"
>     Screen        1
> EndSection
>
> #### Monitor section, 2xSUN 21" GDM-5410
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier    "GDM-5410_0"
>     Option        "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier    "GDM-5410_1"
>     Option        "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> #### Screen section
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier    "Screen_0"
>     Device        "Radeon_0"
>     Monitor        "GDM-5410_0"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        1
>         Modes        "1280x1024" "1152x921" "1024x768" "832x624" 
> "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        4
>         Modes        "1280x1024" "1152x921" "1024x768" "832x624" 
> "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        8
>         Modes        "1280x1024" "1152x921" "1024x768" "832x624" 
> "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        15
>         Modes        "1280x1024" "1152x921" "1024x768" "832x624" 
> "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        16
>         Modes        "1280x1024" "1152x921" "1024x768" "832x624" 
> "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        24
>         Modes        "1280x1024" "1152x921" "1024x768" "832x624" 
> "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier    "Screen_1"
>     Device        "Radeon_1"
>     Monitor        "GDM-5410_1"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        1
>         Modes        "1280x1024" "1152x921" "1024x768" "832x624" 
> "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        4
>         Modes        "1280x1024" "1152x921" "1024x768" "832x624" 
> "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        8
>         Modes        "1280x1024" "1152x921" "1024x768" "832x624" 
> "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        15
>         Modes        "1280x1024" "1152x921" "1024x768" "832x624" 
> "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        16
>         Modes        "1280x1024" "1152x921" "1024x768" "832x624" 
> "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        24
>         Modes        "1280x1024" "1152x921" "1024x768" "832x624" 
> "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "xinerama" "true"
> Option "DefaultServerLayout" "Default Layout"
> EndSection
>
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier    "Default Layout"
>     Screen        0 "Screen_0"
>     Screen          1 "Screen_1" LeftOf "Screen_0"
>     #### Xinerama can be "On" or "Off"
>     Option        "Xinerama" "On"
>     InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
>     InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
>     InputDevice     "stylus"    "SendCoreEvents"
>     InputDevice     "cursor"    "SendCoreEvents"
>     InputDevice     "eraser"    "SendCoreEvents"
> EndSection
>
>
> ------------------------------------
> Garry Trethewey
> I heard it's hard to transmit a virus in semaphore,
> but moving there didn't help.
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