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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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After upgrading to 13.04, plugging in external display to my laptop causes the displays to freeze randomly
I had installed 12.10 on my lenovo ideapad z560 laptop at work last week. I use it together with an external monitor and everything was working fine and then today I upgraded the distribution to ...
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Not possible to set monitor/display configuration permanent
I have got stucked in how to permanent set my monitor/display resolution
Ubuntu does NOT detect my monitor without always use default.
my_user@my_computer:~$ sudo xrandr --newmode "1680x1050" ...
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While using 3 monitors, the third one just displays a TTY
I'm using the VGA and the DVI outputs of my ATI RV516 XT Radeon X1600 SE to connect two monitors, which works (finally). Now I have a third monitor and I´ve heard, that you can use your onboard VGA ...
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Black screen when taking screenshot
I am getting black pictures when I try to take a screenshot with the PrtSc key (which calls Screenshot application).
My graphical system is a Nvidia optimus with Bumblebee installed (the problem ...
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Savage S3 and Lubuntu (or any flavour) 12.10 big issue
Please be nice with me: I spent all the night with it and I'm exausted.
I've got an old Acer Aspire1300 15"(512+256RAM and 1.3 mhz cpu). I tried all night installing Lubuntu, XUbuntu..
lspci -k ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Nvidia Geforce 320M Macbook (Mid 2010 - white clamshell)
So basically X can't start on my Macbook mid 2010 running the Geforce 320M after installing the geforce driver.
It never really came up properly even out of the box, though the Live version seemed to ...
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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 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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nVidea 2nd Graphics card not detected
I have installed two video cards on my new desktop in which I installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 32 bit, each of the cards has both DVI and VGA. On the first video card I have 2 screens, which worked out of ...
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NVIDIA Display Settings Wiped on Reboot Ubuntu 12.10 64bit
I have the latest (31X beta) NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit and no matter how many times I save my display configuration settings after editing my refresh rate and dual monitor position the ...
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Monitor 1 turns off
I just recently upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 12.10. Since the upgrade I have had problems with my displays. This Bug was one of them. Now however it seems almost randomly my primary monitor ...
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How do I enable a third display with my setup?
I've been able to extend my monitor onto two displays at once, but I can't get it to work with three. When I use the System Settings > Display, it gives me the following error when I try to output 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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How to I debug blank display on a specific model of projector?
My Ubuntu 12.10 laptop recognizes and displays on many models of external monitors and projectors without issue, but with the Optoma HD20 the projector shows "No Signal" and the display is otherwise ...
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Export current monitor settings
Is there a way to 'export' the current display configuration? We just need to export the configuration to an Xorg.conf file so that we can import it to another computer (deployment).
The active ...
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Why the xinput calculation is not correct as theory mentioned to be?
For resolution 1024x768
I tried: xinput set-prop "Elo TouchSystems, Inc. Elo TouchSystems 2700 IntelliTouch(r) USB Touchmonitor Interface" --type=float "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 ...
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Xorg and Xserver not starting up after hibernate
I originally wrote this question on http://unix.stackexchange.com but didn't really get any response and that forum isn't as busy as this one so hoping to get better luck here.
I'm currently running ...
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Starting Unity manually causes screen to not be drawn correctly
I've been messing around with window managers and I decided to see if I could boot into Ubuntu 12.04 in text mode and then start up Unity manually. The way I ended up doing this was changing quiet ...
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How to tell which graphics card is being used in a hybrid system?
How do I know which graphics card is being used in a hybrid system?
From lspci:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] ...
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list existing X display names?
How do I get a list of current X display names?
Apart from being a useful thing to know, I want this so that (hopefully!) I can use xcalib -invert -alter as suggested in this question to inver the ...
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How to take screenshot of an X11 based GUI from a text terminal (such as tty1)?
I tried using DISPLAY=:0 import -window root "$HOME/Pictures/screenshot.png" (import is part of the ImageMagick suite), but that just displays a black screen.
I want to do this as I wanted to ...
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how do i check available displays
When you know what display you want apps to start by default you would do something like:
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
But suppose miss daisy, which is a frisky windows user that is giving linux a ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - how to set the resolution to 1024x768 and correct rate? using command line when ever system starts
I have this following code where my VGA output is always showing out of range. How can i resolve it?
$ cvt 1024 768
$ xrandr --newmode shvga 74.50 1024 1072 1176 1328 768 771 775 798
$ xrandr ...
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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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Successful boot, but no video output
Ok, just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on an ASUS Zenbook UX32A (integrated graphics).
On boot, screen goes black, and doesn't come back on. However, the computer boots successfully and I hear the login ...
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how to reset dual display to one screen from command line?
How can I reset dual display to one screen from command line and set old second screen as main display? (12.04 + nvidia)
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add display resolution ― what is wrong of this xorg.conf
I have an TV screen which I would like to attach to my laptop with the right resolution. Just because this is basic stuff I searched and found a lot about the xorg.conf file, modelines and so on.
My ...
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Automatically change resolution when not in dock
I have Ubuntu 11.04 (yep, I know it's old news) on my Lenovo W520. At home, I have a dock with dual monitors. I have a pretty decent setup - things work almost perfectly (hence the reason I'm ...
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Display has problems after xorg edgers
Some time ago trying to improve graphics I installed the xorg edgers ppa. This leaved me without graphic mode, finally I fixed it. But there are some problems, sometimes the text or the folders fade ...
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My 2nd screen going gray after kernel upgrade to 3.2.0-30. (12.04) [closed]
My video card is nvidia GT 9400.
Same as title, I upgrade kernel from 3.2.029 to 3.2.0-30 yesterday.
After upgrade, 2nd monitor turn to gray & could not configure.
My xorg.conf is ...
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I can't set 1280x1024 resolution in 12.04
After installing a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 on my PC, Ubuntu can't detect my monitor which is a Phillips 190c 19".
With 10.10, I used 1280x1024 and on Nvidia drivers I was able to see my monitor brand. ...
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Save Display Settings to xorg.conf
I can configure my display setting through "System Settings > Displays"
But I cannot save it to xorg.conf and I don't have a xorg.conf at all in /etc/X11/.
How can I save the current settings into ...
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/etc/X11/xorg.conf file is not available
I am using Sony VPCZ136GG Laptop. Os Ubuntu 11.10
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file is not available.
I can set only 1600 x 900(16:9) resolution. Not able to connect Projector. I want to add multiple screen ...
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External display not detected on Lenovo T520
In Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, I installed nvidia-current-updates and enabled the discrete NVIDIA card only in BIOS (Optimus completely disabled). Ubuntu uses the nvidia driver but fails to detect an external ...
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xgamma -display parameter for dual monitor setup
I want to change gamma for my first monitor. Every time I invoke xgamma with different -display parameters it somehow points to my second monitor. But I want to modify first one.
I tried these ...
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New monitor, screen flickers. Switched to old monitor, no use [closed]
Running 12.04, anytime something changes the resolution the entire system screws up. I can't use ttys to get into terminal, resetting x does Nothing, the only way to solve this persistent issue is to ...
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Force startx to run X in a specific resolution and refresh Rate
From my past experience (using Win-Xp), this particular monitor works only on 60Hz , Best resolution being 1024x768.
I have "installed and configured" Ubuntu 12.04 Minimal (on USB stick) so that most ...
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Split an X Desktop across multiple machines
I work with several laptops on my desk at once. I'm currently using X2x to allow my mouse and keyboard to go from one machine to the next. But what I'd really like is to have one big X desktop ...
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Configure external display on Ubuntu 11.10
I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Acer Aspire 5742Z and everythings working great except my external display. I've got an HP ZR2440w. The Display settings for this show it's running at its native ...
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How To Set Nvidia Overscan To Persistent After Reboot?
Stats of what I'm running:
TV: HP MediaSmart TV 47" / OS: Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit / Video Card: Nvidia GeForce GT 220 / Video Driver: Nvidia 260.19.06
When I first setup Ubuntu on this computer, ...
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Adjust resolution in xfce4 virtualbox guest guest
I have Virtualbox 4.1.2_ubuntur3859 installed on an Ubuntu 11.10 host, running a guest ubuntu server 10.04 with xfce4 and xorg installed with no-install-recommends.
I have installed guest additions, ...
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How do I disable automatic monitor detection and adjustment of displays? [closed]
I am running 11.10 on an Dell Mini 9 (Inspiron 910). When I connect VGA or close the lid the computer automatically detects the change and adjusts the displays.
How can I disable this?
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“can't open display” weirdness over ssh
Some time back, (maybe a year?), my environment was working correctly. But some time in the last year or so I started getting "can't open display" errors.
It's weird because I can ssh into the ...
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Triple-head on a Lenovo T520
Lenovo T520 with integrated Intel HD graphics + a NVidia card (Optimus)
Ubuntu 11.10 on the computer.
I would like to use the built-in screen plus two external screens.
This PDF indicates that it is ...
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Quitting Braid causes dual monitors to switch to mirror mode
I have 2 monitors in my desktop. The one has a smaller resolution than the other (don't know if it matters for this issue). From Display I have disabled mirroring, so the first monitor continues to ...
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Screen distorted on a Great Wall A081 netbook
I am new here. Please make it easy for me to understand.
Recently I installed Ubuntu 10.04 netbook edition inside windows using Wubi with ultra ISO and magic iso virtual manager in my GREAT WALL A081 ...
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Turn off monitor using command line
I am runnning Ubuntu Server on my laptop. There is really no reason for the screen to be on. I have been trying to use this command to turn the screen off:
sleep 1 && xset dpms force off
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How do you change brightness, color and sharpness from command line?
I am controlling my PC with SSH and scripting. How can i change the brightness, color and sharpness from command line?
Try 1: failed
$ sudo redshift -t 5000:5000 -g .5
Cannot list GNOME panel ...
