The first suggestion, clicking on the default checkbox in screen resolution, did not help. I haven't tried the second method yet.<br><br>- Joey<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Tom Marble</b> <<a href="mailto:tmarble@info9.net">tmarble@info9.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Joey Rockhold wrote:<br>> I am running 2 Ubuntu machines. I have them both hooked to a KVM<br>> switch. When I boot either of them up, and I do not have the KVM set to<br>> those particular machines, they boot up in 640x480 mode (or 800x600).
<br>> Yet if the KVM switch is on those computers while they boot, I get my<br>> full 1280x1024 resolution. Can anyone direct me to how to lock down the<br>> resolution I want?<br><br>On my feisty (pre-release) system one can change change the default resolution
<br>in the Gnome menu: System | Control Center, then click on "Screen Resolution"<br>and select the default.<br><br>The "old school" (and perhaps simpler) way to do this is by editing<br>/etc/X11/xorg.conf (save the current version first!).
<br><br>You will find a section like this:<br><br>Section "Screen"<br> Identifier "Default Screen"<br> Device "Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller"
<br> Monitor "Generic Monitor"<br> DefaultDepth 24<br> SubSection "Display"<br> Depth 24<br> Modes "1680x1050" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
<br> EndSubSection<br>EndSection<br><br>For each instance of the line "Modes" insure that you have only the<br>resolution(s) that you want.<br><br>HTH,<br><br>--Tom<br><br></blockquote></div><br>