propman illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
> Trying Kubuntu v8.10 out in Virtualbox 2.0.2 (Vista).....have only 800x600
> resolution in Kubuntu VM.
>
>
> Acer Aspire 7720 with Intel 965 Express Chipset
>
> Have run dual boot Ubuntu v8.04 /Vista on this laptop with higher
> resolutions than 800x600.
>
>
> Looks like they took out the "Monitor and Display - System Settings"
> program (Kunbutu v8.04) in v8.10 beta.....doesn't seem to be any separate
> options for choosing a video card and/or monitor.
>
> Did a repo search for "displayconfig-gtk".....doesn't show up in the
> listings; AFAIK, I have all relevent repo's toggled on.
>
> Any alternative (pref GUI) before I try editing xorg.conf?
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated. :-)

System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution no good?

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Moog wrote in
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> propman illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
>> Trying Kubuntu v8.10 out in Virtualbox 2.0.2 (Vista).....have only
>> 800x600 resolution in Kubuntu VM.
>>
>>
>> Acer Aspire 7720 with Intel 965 Express Chipset
>>
>> Have run dual boot Ubuntu v8.04 /Vista on this laptop with higher
>> resolutions than 800x600.
>>
>>
>> Looks like they took out the "Monitor and Display - System Settings"
>> program (Kunbutu v8.04) in v8.10 beta.....doesn't seem to be any
>> separate options for choosing a video card and/or monitor.
>>
>> Did a repo search for "displayconfig-gtk".....doesn't show up in the
>> listings; AFAIK, I have all relevent repo's toggled on.
>>
>> Any alternative (pref GUI) before I try editing xorg.conf?
>>
>> Any thoughts would be appreciated. :-)
>
> System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution no good?
>

Kubuntu....different set of menu's. It has "Screen Resize and Rotate"
which looks like to me the same program as Ubuntu v8.04 "Screen
Resolution". In either program, unless the higher resolutions and
variable refresh rates are listed, there is no way to change the
settings. Damn stupid, if you ask me. Kubuntu v8.04 does have options
to select monitor/manufacturer/model etc as mentioned above; to get the
same thing in Ubuntu v8.04, displayconfig-gtk has to be run from
terminal as there is no provision made to add it to the menus during a
LiveCD install.

After installing Ubuntu v8.04 on a couple of systems where the
card/monitor weren't detected correctly where I've had to dick around
with xorg.conf, it only just in the last few days, came to my attention
due to a comment in this newsgroup that displayconfig-gtk is installed
during the LiveCD install!! So all that wasted time dicking around with
xorg.conf, refresh rates etc and it would have taken 2 minutes if the
program had been included on one of the menus! Again, very damn stupid
ommission, IMHO.

.......and now, unless I am missing something really obvious, it would
appear that Kubuntu v8.10 is going to be doing the same thing but with
no replacement (that I have been able to source of yet anyways). I'm
starting to think that maybe I will try using Synaptic to pull the
Kbuntu v8.04 program and then try installing it in Kubuntu v8.10.

Anyways, that's a job for tomorrow............ :-)