An new monitor cable messed up my resolution
I was having trouble with the old VGA cable I was using for my monitor. So I got a new one off of Amazon real cheap, it says it's High Res HD15 on the posting I got it from. However when I boot into Kubuntu or Ubuntu, the resolution is wayyyyyyy too low and the proper one is not appearing in the settings. Also, the GRUB menu is a different color (dark blue vs. light blue) and the resolution is smaller.
The proper resolution is displayed in Windows.
Is there any way to fix this? do I have to buy a new cable?
22 Answers
Few options/ideas:
Good VGA cables are not expensive. For about £20 you can buy a 2m, triple-shielded Lindy cable.
Good monitors aren't much more, to be fair and will give you much more value than a diamond-encrusted VGA cable. There's a reason DVI and HDMI replaced VGA: they're better.
Get somebody else to test the cable in their set up.
This may seem a bit easy, but have you tried changing resolution back to normal from the Monitors menu. I had an issue with my 64bit Linux Mint once where it would automatically lower the resolution whenever graphic shaders are executed (games)...
Either way I don't trust 64bit Ubuntus anymore....
