Dell GX150 & a Fujitsu E19-5 running ubuntu.

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For Christmas I got a Fujitsu E19-5 monitor. The computer I use it with is a Dell Opt-Plex GX150 on a small form chassis. The screen resolution 1024x768. The maximum setting of the monitor 1280x1084. The OS I run on my this computer is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Ubuntu will not:

1) Automaticly detect the monitor.

2) Allow me to set the maximum setting for the screen resolution. If I read the GX150 manual correctly, the default graphics card should support the maximum resolution.

Is the problem with Ubuntu of the GX150??

James

My first guess would be that you need to see if you can find a better driver for the monitor and the graphics card. Drivers are often more of an issue with any flavour of Linux, especially with newer hardware.

And - I don't know anything about this monitor - but you're saying the maximum setting is greater than the screen resolution. I've never worked with anything that allowed you to set a higher DPI than the actual screen resolution. Assuming this isn't a typo, I can only figure there's some software (or firmware) wizardry at work here. I wouldn't trust such a setup very far. And it might depend on Windows to do whatever it is which is allowing it to fake a higher screen resolution than is actually there. (Screen resolution = the actual number of pixels in the monitor; your setting is the apparent number of pixels. It isn't hard to scale that down - but how would they make it appear to display more pixels than are there? I don't deal with cutting edge stuff, I'm happy with my old machine, so maybe they can do this, but it has to involve a lot of fancy tricks. Perhaps Ubuntu doesn't support those tricks?)