@Mark,
Could try hitting the detect monitor button under system/preferences/display ?
My "xvinfo" output clearly shows the maximum image size supported:1920 x 1088

bernard@ubuntu:~$ xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
  Adaptor #0: "Intel(R) Video Overlay"
    number of ports: 1
    port base: 64
    operations supported: PutImage
    supported visuals:
      depth 24, visualID 0x21
    number of attributes: 6
      "XV_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 16777215)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 66046)
      "XV_BRIGHTNESS" (range -128 to 127)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is -19)
      "XV_CONTRAST" (range 0 to 255)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 75)
      "XV_SATURATION" (range 0 to 1023)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 146)
      "XV_DOUBLE_BUFFER" (range 0 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1)
      "XV_PIPE" (range -1 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is -1)
    maximum XvImage size: 1920 x 1088
    Number of image formats: 5
      id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
        guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: YUV (packed)
      id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
        guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 3
        type: YUV (planar)
      id: 0x30323449 (I420)
        guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 3
        type: YUV (planar)
      id: 0x59565955 (UYVY)
        guid: 55595659-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: YUV (packed)
      id: 0x434d5658 (XVMC)
        guid: 58564d43-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 3
        type: YUV (planar)

./bernard


On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
might be the same bug that affects fedora 11?


2009/10/1 brian Rioba <rriobs@gmail.com>

Run xvinfo command and post the output


On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
15 inches and refresh rate is 60hz

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Jamal Mohamed <jamal.worx@gmail.com> wrote:
> How big is ur monitor and what's the refresh rate.
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Got it and installed it but doesnt give me any other option above 800
>> x 600 though I know for a fact that it can do 1024 x 768 on windows.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Jamal Mohamed <jamal.worx@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Try getting an app in gnome called grandr or console based called
>> > xrandr.That will help you get the right resolution
>> >
>> > On 10/1/09, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi People,
>> >>
>> >> Ave installed Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 on my pc but cant get the
>> >> resolution higher than 800 x 600 . . .Googling shows that its a common
>> >> problem but their solutions are Greek to me and dont seem to work. .
>> >> .. my xorg.conf file doesnt show much to edit and I think I have
>> >> installed all the packages that concern my graphics device(S3
>> >> Prosavage ddr)
>> >>
>> >> Anyone have a work around?
>> >>
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