Hurrah.  I was very pleased to read of your successful install and admire your perseverance. To change your screen resolution, open the terminal (Applications - Accessories - Terminal) and type "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg" without the quotation marks, then press enter.  That will take you to a screen listing many available resolutions.  Scroll up/down using your up/down buttons on your keyboard to whatever resolution you might want and can sustain.  Press the spacebar to select, press enter and exit.  You can try Ctrl+Alt+Backspace which restarts the GUI, if that does not have the desired result, reboot.  I assume that your monitor screen is a normal one rather than a widescreen. If you have any questions, just fire away. Cheers, Andre <div>On 09/07/07, Trias <<a href="mailto:aussietrias@gmail.com">aussietrias@gmail.com </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Well I was lucky installing the 7.04 AMD64 ubuntu DVD version.  No problems of any real import.  Perhaps I could say windows startup has slowed is about all.  I'm even posting this via linux which is somewhat exciting for me but probably a bore to others I suppose. Well the 32 bit didn't work and the 64 bit did so i suppose I am stuck with it and will have to make do as best as possible.  Seems an endless argument over which to use talking about config issues, support and performance.  Apparently the 32 bit ubuntu version is supposed to work.  Thanks for the information links. My experience is mostly positive so far.  I finally found my bookmarks on my windows partition.  For some reason the search in this GUI didn't work on that drive. It wanted 27 updates.  So i click the no clue button and it updated.  It also wanted to install the nvidia drivers which hopefully work now.  Installing those drivers made the GUI considerably crisper tho i still seem unable to go beyond 1024x768 resolution.  I usually run quite a bit higher. It ran movies once i got the codecs. The GUI itself seems super clean though very simple. I'll have to figure out how to install stuff soon.  Fortunately firefox is also my usual windows browser.  I have only briefly looked at openoffice before but it was quite good then.  Everything else is a mystery to me.  I play games a fair bit I know linux is weak in this area but perhaps there is something if any of you could help. <div> <div>On 7/8/07, Les Gray <<a href="mailto:lgray@bigpond.net.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> lgray@bigpond.net.au</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Glad to see you're making progress. If you do end up installing 64-bit Ubuntu you will find that you need to do a little extra work to get some things going, though. For example, you need to run 32-bit Firefox to have the Java plugin and Flash working hassle-free, because 64-bit versions of those aren't available yet (this is the same with Windows). This will work, but requires some extra set-up. There's some excellent info on how to go about this in the 64-bit section of <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntuforums.org</a> , which is a must read. There is also some good 64-bit help at <a href="http://ubuntuguide.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> ubuntuguide.org</a> . I used 64-bit Ubuntu for about 6 months, and I didn't notice any performance difference TBH. At this stage, any 64-bit OS - Linux, Windows or otherwise - is only of benefit to people who require more than 4GB RAM eg. very large and very intensive database servers. For the home user, there's no real benefit. In fact, the software incompatibilities just mean extra work for you, which is why I went back to 32-bit in the end. Les On Sunday 08 July 2007 19:18:15 Trias wrote: > Good news at last. > > I tried the knoppix it worked no worries.  I then tried the 64bit DVD of > ubuntu 7.04 and no worries again.  So seems the 64 bit version has solved > my problem at least in terms of running without installing. > > I admit i was quite impressed.  Browsing worked immediately and ubuntu even > has firefox which i what i'm used to.  Both also allowed access to my hard > drive ran movies etc. > > I guess I will try backing up and pushing the scary install button now. > > Thanks for the help thus far.  Hopefully the install is problem free. -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </blockquote></div> </div> -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </blockquote></div> -- <a href="mailto:andremangan@gmail.com">andremangan@gmail.com</a>