Restarting the window manager, after editing the file as you suggested, caused the (I presume) window manager to display all sorts of weird patterns - ultimately rendering a completely unintelligible screen.
Rebooting the PC resulted in the window manager producing the same display from the outset. Removed the in-situ xorg.conf and restarted - altho' the resolution was apparently correctly probed, but seemingly the display type wasn't i.e. the resolution was correct but the huge black border was back. The 'Screen Resolution' tool was and is, completely ineffectual - I have to continue to use displayconfig-gtk in order to get a useable screen area - this showed all available resolutions, current setting of 640x800 - changing this to 1024x768 caused no change in screen resolution, but the display area is now the full screen. As far as the 2nd section is concerned, I think Xorg is probing and correctly detecting the 2nd/alternate screen capability - hence the 2nd section in xorg.conf. -- xorg.conf overwritten at gdm startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274776 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
