Dear friends, Thanks for the help. After installing nvidia-graphics and running nvidia-xconf, I automatically got my 1680x1050 resolution back. How I was able to get that resolution before that remains a mystery. Take care Oliver On Jan 22, 2008 9:17 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > > -- > Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher > Center for Cell Analysis and Modelling > http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/ > -- Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher Center for Cell Analysis and Modelling http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/