Thanks for the warning. To fix this I'm going to reinstall / . Hopefully it isn't a saved setting. On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > When you get your monitor to show the correct resolution again, I would > suggest that you never turn off your monitor, unless you also turn off your > computer. Instead, set your power management to put your monitor to sleep. > If you turn your monitor off while your system is still on, your system > assumes that it has no monitors at all and when you turn the monitor back > on it treats it like you are hot plugging a new display on your system and > configures it from scratch, hence the changed resolution. If your monitor > is asleep, it will continue to tell your computer that it's still there so > your random config changes won't happen. > > If you want a way to suspend your monitor immediately, create an icon that > runs this command: > > xset dpms force standby > > Alternatively you could hard code your monitor into the X11 settings so > that it always knows it's there... but I wouldn't recommend that. > > Brian Cluff > > > On 01/07/2016 09:41 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > > I turned my computer off and went to watch tv. I turned my computer on > about 2 hours later and the resolution had changed (I think). This has > happened before and a restart would fix the problem... but not this time. > So I open the control panel and go to 'monitors' and it is set to 640x480. > I think one of those numbers should be 1080 but when I click the arrows to > select another resolution nothing appears, just the option to choose > 640x480. Any one know how tofix such a problem? I run ubuntu. > Maybe it has something to do with the dist-upgrade I did the last time I > run the computer. > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: