resolution max at 600x800 ubuntu 8.04

[kornphlake]

I have a hard drive with ubuntu 8.04 installed from a computer that quit working a while back, the harddrive is fine and I'm moving it to another computer and all seems to be working well so far, but for some reason in the new computer the resolution is stuck at 600x800 or 640x480. Before moving the harddrive I had more resolution options. I know I should upgrade to a more recent version and the problem will most likely go away but the OS on the harddrive is setup as a content filter and I have a lot of time invested in getting it to work properly. I really don't have the time or patience to configure everything on a newer version. Any suggestions on how to resolve the issue with the screen resolution, it's just an academic exercise at this point, once I've verified the new hardware is working properly I'll perform all administration remotely through SSH, but it would be nice to have the GUI working properly just as a back up.

 

[Jodell88]

Need more information. Intel? Nvidia? AMD/ATI? Open source drivers or proprietary?

 

[kornphlake]

Yeah, details, I forget the details are more important than the story some times. The previous setup was a Nvidia MX400 AGP card, current system has some flavor of Intel onboard graphics, no problems with the graphics using a live CD with standard vesa drivers. It's been a long time but I believe I was using open source drivers in the old PC with the Nvidia card.

 

[mv2devnull]

If it (the X) was configured to use nvidia driver, it cannot be very happy with Intel chip. Make sure that an appropriate driver is used. I would look at the logs of X and hack the /etc/X11/xorg.conf in RH-based distro, but I have no idea whether Ubuntu has anything like that.

 

[Nothinman]

Ubuntu uses Xorg as well so if there's a config file it'll be /etc/X11/xorg.conf. However, Xorg has been working towards more and more dynamic configuration so unless the nVidia drivers created one it might not be there. If there is one, try just renaming it so it's not used and see if Xorg figures out all of the right drivers on it's own like it should.

 

[kornphlake]

I got it fixed, Xorg.conf had instructions on how to reconfigure

sudo dpkg- reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

did the trick.

Thanks