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Higher display resolution on Acer 5755g
I am using Acer Aspire 5755g with NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M (2gb) and Ubuntu 13.04. The resolution set by default is 1366x768 and it is the highest possible to choose. I would like to use bigger ...
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Part of my external screen stays blank when connected to laptop (Kubuntu 13.04)
I have installed Kubuntu 13.04 on my XPS13: when I plug in an external screen with resolution 1920x1200 on my laptop (which is 1920x1080) via the mini display port (DVI cable), I get a mirror of my ...
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How to manually set a special resolution?
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit for the past short time. After a screen upgrade, I can't use/set the right resolution.
My old display setting was three 17" of 1280x1024 behind a Matrox TripleHead2GO ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 HDMI resolution and display options incorrect
I have installed ubuntu 13.04 and the HDMI resolution is incorrect and options limited to a max of 1280x720. The VGA is not perfect as it is cutting off the top taskbar slightly, it also shows a ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Monitor & Resolution Issues on Older Nvidia Card
When I do a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04 on a computer with an older Nvidia Quadro FX 500 128mb agp card, I cannot get the display to work.
There are a number of things that happen:
On some fresh ...
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Nvidia Geforce GT630 resolution problem
I installed the drivers but the maximum resolution I can get is 1360x768. Can I get to 1920x1080? On Windows it worked fine.
Edit: I have Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
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two display-related issues with U13.04
having recently upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04, the screen is shifted upwards thereby making the top menu bar not visible, and a black strip on the bottom. It's as though 13.04 changed the vertical ...
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Fix Overscan/ Underscan on HDTV Intel HD Graphics Card
I have my laptop running Ubuntu 12.10 hooked up via HDMI to my 24inch, 1080p HDTV though I am experiencing an overscan problem. When the tv cis connected, it cannot be run at the 1080x720 resolution ...
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Ubuntu Display Resolution Issue
I just did a clean install of the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 12.10 on a Dell Inspiron 660 and I'm having trouble with my display setup. The PC has an Ivy Bridge i5 with integrated graphics, and the ...
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Ubuntu resolution with Ultrabook
I installed 12.10 to Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A. Now i face with resolution problem. Default resolution is 1920x1080, and Ubuntu display can normally detect it. But everything is too small with this ...
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How to set display resolution via terminal?
I am on a multi monitor 12.04.2 with ATI 13.1. After the pain of configuring multi monitor, I have the following problem. For some reason whenever I restart the system my third monitor (ID: Display ...
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My screen display is smudgy and unclear. Can I improve its quality?
I'm a recent happy convert from Windows. One thing about Ubuntu (12;10) though, is the quality of its display. It is smudgy and blurred compare to Vista. I set the resolution to the max 1440 x 900 ...
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DVI-VGA adapter problem
Is it possible to add unsupported resolution when monitor is connected via DVI -> VGA (passive probably) adapter? The problem is that the monitor (Acer AL1916W) is reported as CRT monitor, mainly ...
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Custom display settings with Lubuntu? [duplicate]
I am having a hard time with this HP Mini 210 1000 netbook. The screen just stretched out all of a sudden, forcing a resolution (1024x768) which is higher than the display's actual resolution ...
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Ubuntu 12.10. Can't add custom resolution
System: Ubuntu 12.10, nVidia Geforce GT240 (nvidia-current privative driver), LG display connected to VGA-0
The 1920x1080 resolution is not listed, I've added it in Windows but I'm having problems ...
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Setting up xorg.conf metamodes for nvidia letterboxing
I'm currently trying to configure my xorg.conf to letterbox screen resolutions smaller than the native resolution of my display (1680x1050) so that I can play older games full screen without ...
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How to avoid screen being stretched when mirroring a Notebook (16:9) to a projector (4:3)
I use Ubuntu 12.10 (Gnome 3) on a MacBook Air. I would like to connect the notebook to an external projector and mirror the displays. The projector image looks great, however, everything on the ...
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Unity cropping external monitor: how do I fix it? [duplicate]
I I have a dual-screen setup with my laptop (1366x768) and an external monitor connected through HDMI (primary 1920x1080).
I don't know if this is cause by different aspect ratios (16:10 on laptop, ...
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How do i remove the resolution which shows by xrandr?
I tried to remove using xrandr --rmmode or --delmode output name but it fails. How do i remove it then??
HDMI-1 connected 1280x720+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 160mm x 90mm
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Why is xrandr reporting a resolution just above the maximum (native) resolution?
I have a bizarre issue with a Lenovo e430 laptop.
The LCD display is 1366x768, but for some reason it always starts with a resolution of 1368x768. This 2px overscan makes things jump all over the ...
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Changing to a lower screen resolution
When I change the screen resolution of my laptop from 1366x768 to 1024x768 via [Displays ...], the entire screen is still filled. How can I have a 1-to-1 mapping such that the original proportions ...
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Firefox session selector displays reduced resolution
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit with ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver enabled.
When multiple Firefox windows are open and I double-click on the Firefox icon, the screen shows all the sessions ...
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Problem extending laptop's Monitor
I am using MSI VR440 laptop http://www.msi.com/product/nb/VR440.html#?div=Specification . The laptop uses SIS Graphics card and has the resolution of 1280x800.
When I connect a desktop LCD monitor ...
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How do I change screen resolution?
I am unable to change my screen resolution in my ubuntu 12.04. My default screen resolution was 1366x768. I had executed nvidia-xconfig to activate NVIDIA driver. Since then my screen resolution has ...
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How to get Ubuntu VB guest to use monitor's native resolution?
I am running an Ubuntu 12.04 VirtualBox guest (with Guest Additions installed) within a Windows 7 host.
How can I set the resolution of the guest VB to match the physical machine's native ...
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Resolution and screens not detected properly
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop with integrated Intel graphics (Intel i5 460M CPU). The screen resolution is set to 1024x768 and can only be changed to 800x600, while my screen is 1366x768.
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How to provide second monitors resolution to application?
I have a dual monitor setup, with the basic TwinView settings from my Nvidia-card (550 Ti). One monitor is my primary display (1600x900) and the other is my TV (1920*1080).
I have arranged XBMC to ...
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How do I change the maximum resolution of my computer for multiple monitors?
I am trying to enable three monitors for my setup in Ubuntu 12.10. My card is a Raedon 5700 HD series. When I try to extend my display to any additional monitors, I get the following error:
required ...
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Ubuntu won't do 1920x1080
Both my monitors (one over DVI other over HDMI) have a native resolution of 1920x1080 (16:9) but the only two options for resolution in the "Display" section of system settings are 800x600 (4:3) and ...
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Overscan compensation issue
Since upgrading to 12.10 I cant permanently fix overscan on my tv.
Using this code I can fix the overscan
sudo nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="DFP-1: 1920x1080 { ...
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How to clear jupiter's notification?
I used an external display some time before. After that there is a notification of 'New Resolution' everytime the startup of my xfce.
Look like this:
This is really annoying, so I want to know how ...
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Unity Greeter login screen cuts off login options
I have a pretty newly installed Ubuntu 12.04, using Unity. My external monitor is 1920x1080 max resolution. In the Unity desktop itself everything looks great. I have an NVidia graphics card.
When I ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 on Dell Mini 9: direct me to screen aspect ratio directions?
Can someone direct me to an existing discussion, if there is one, about how to install the right aspect ratio or screen resolution on my Dell Mini 9 now that I have Ubuntu 12.04? All the discussions I ...
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Overscan, Ubuntu 12.04, Nvidia driver
I know there are many questions about overscan around but I cant seem to find a working solution. I know the cause of this is the Nvidia driver, as I have no problems with the default driver, so I ...
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Low resolution Dektop intel i7 3770 and intel board DH67BL
I installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 in a desktop with the following specs:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Motherboard: Intel DH67B
However the monitor is not identified (Monitor: Unknown) ...
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Blender 2.63a window position unstable with dual monitor extended desktop
I have two 1920 x 1200 HP monitors and running Ubuntu 12.10. If I set them up as an
extended desktop, (both 1280 x 1024 positioned for 2048 x 1280, all my applications work fine EXCEPT Blender (even ...
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Apple Cinema Display 23" and grub
As per the title, I'm running my display on an older 23" Apple Cinema Display (because I still love it, darn it). I'm pushing it with an ATI Radeon DVI dual-link PCIe card.
It works just fine, except ...
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How do I set the native resolution on an HP Mini 210-1004sa?
FYI: My Netbook model is HP Mini 210-1004sa, which comes with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150, and has a display 10.1" Active Matrix Colour TFT 1024 x 600.
I recently removed Windows 7 Starter ...
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Display resolution problem with Sony TV and Intel integrated graphics
I am trying to set the correct display resolution for my Sony TV (KDL-32V2000, native resolution 1366x768) connected via HDMI to my HTPC running Ubuntu 12.04. I have a Intel Core i3-530 and Intel mobo ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - Resolution stuck at 1024x768 using Open Source Radeon Driver
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 with an ATI Radeon HD5670 card.
I currently have the open source xorg-edgers driver. I've been using this driver interchangeably with the Radeon open source driver since fglrx ...
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How do I configure an HP G7 for dual monitors with a 36" HDTV?
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 on my HP G7 laptop with a dual monitor setup. I have the laptop monitor & the other display is a 36" Sanyo HDTV.
I cannot change the resolution on the 36" using the ...
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screen DPI - is there and equivalent command/action to Windows 150% Display
I have a wide screen of high resolution and I see everything small on it. So In windows I set the display to 150%, I would like to do something similar in Ubuntu. Simply changing screen resolution to ...
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Can't change display resolution on a Lenovo G575
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on my Lenovo G575 (64 bit). I was using my computer with the 1366x768 display resolution. I changed the display resolution of my computer to the 800x600 yesterday, then I tried ...
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Multiple monitor resolution LightDM
I use different displays connected to my HDMI ports and the laptop display. In order to resolve LightDM login resolution bug I've developed a script beginning from what written in How to force ...
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How do I increase screen resolution in ubuntu 12.04? I want 1366x768
I get the following output when I run xrandr:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x ...
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Resolution stuck in 640x480 in grub, 11.04 and 12.04
I have three operating systems on my machine, Windows 7x64, Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 both x64 as well. All three were running at full resolution for my monitor, as well as in the Grub 1.99 boot screen.
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Advise on which video card to use for 3 2560x1440 screens [closed]
I'm looking at setting up a new system.
Asus P9X79 Motherboard
Intel Core i7 3820 3.60GHz CPU
16GB A-Data DDR3-1600
Corsair AX850
and the video card.
I'm aiming to use 3 Korean monitors 2560x1440
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Monitor not being correctly detected, restricting screen resolution
I have just updated to 12.04 and I have only one choice of screen resolution now, and it is incorrect (1024x768). I believe the correct resolution for my display is 1366 x 768. It is on an Acer Aspire ...
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Desktop wallpapers bug with two display
I use an external display for my laptop, windows detected resolution 1280x1024, but Ubuntu config manager detects only 1024x768.
I tried to set resolution manually with:
# cvt 1280 1024
# 1280x1024 ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 disk installs LTS on desktop?? wrong display drivers
I used the same 12.04 install disk to install on two desktop machines. One worked correctly and easily recognized the Dell 2210 display. The other loaded an LTS (laptop??) version that has a display ...
