cant change screen resolution.

Bug #132807 reported by engan64@hotmail.com
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xorg (Ubuntu)
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Roberto Sarrionandia

Bug Description

[SYSTEM] [PREFERENCES] [SCREEN RESOLUTION]
I cant change the screen resolution, can only chose x640x480.
I cant change the refresh rate only 60 Hz, but i can change the rotation, normal, left, inverted and right.

version: (Feisty Fawn) 7.04.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 15 22:16:27 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/ubuntu
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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engan64@hotmail.com (engan64) wrote :
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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this bug.

What graphics device is the machine using?

You can find out with the command

 lspci | grep "VGA"

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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote :

It would seem your refresh rate settings are being incorrectly autodetected, this is a known bug, I will mark this as a duplicate.

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