Monitor resoluton

[Michael Havens]

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 <brian at snaptek.com> 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.
>
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