Laptop Display Resolution

[Brian Chadwick]

Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>      Dear friends,
>
>   I have a Dell Latitude D820 laptop. Today, I changed the screen
> resolution to something smaller using
> Menu>System>Administration>Display, and I can not change it back. The
> display used to be set to generic LCD display and the resolution - I
> think - was set to 1680x1050. Now the display is set to generic LCD
> panel 1024x768 and the highest resolution available is 1360x768. When
> I change the monitor type, it simply says the change will not take
> effect until I log out and in again, and it does not allow me to
> change the resolution to something higher (even though the monitor
> type is set to be a generic LCD with some higher resolution). When I
> log out and in, the monitor type is set to what it was before (see
> above).
>
>   Web search has not solved the problem. Neither was I able to find
> out what monitor I have, nor what might be the problem. Video Card is
> nVidia Corporation G72M.
>
>   Any help? Thanks!
>
>      Take care
>      Oliver
>
>   
try manually editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the mode line to 
include your monitors resoultion. then restart X