Screen Resolution of XFCE

[kansasnoob]

I'm totally at a loss here. You say Xfce, but nothing else.

Is this Mint Xfce? Mint 6? Mint 5?

Maybe post the output from terminal of:

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cat /etc/issue

And also:

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lspci | grep VGA 

And:

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xrandr

[joeham]

Check the xorg.conf and see if monitor is detected. Check to see if the resolutions you want are avaiable in the screens section.

You KVM switch might be preventing the monitor from being detected.

The fact that xrandr reports the max resolution available is 800x600 is not a good sign. xrandr is part of xorg and in my experience, if it does not report a resolution, it is very unlikely your will be able to get it.

I have had problems when I install with one type of display attached, then switch after install. I have seen confused xorg.confs because of it. So thats what makes me think the KVM switch does not allow the display config info to get to the PC for display detection.

[richyrich]

It's your KVM Switch that stops the detection, not the other way around.

[richyrich]

I went and purchased better cabling for my DLink KVM, the big thick white cabling that came with it caused the same problem as you are experiencing. With the new, thin black ones (sorry don't know the brand), I now get full resolution on all of my pc's through the kvm.

regards, Richard