Introducing myself to the list, and a first question

[Dave Marple]

Might as well, but usually only 24 is used I believe.

Get we soon,
Dave

On 8/19/07, Les Wright <leslie.wright at alumni.uwo.ca> wrote:
>
>  Thanks Dave, I will try that when I get time this week.
>
> I am a bit delirious with the flu right now so my OP is riddled with
> typos. The correct desired resolution of my monitor is 1280x1024, not
> 1280x1084 as I wrote the second time.. I know from running it with Windows
> the 5:4 aspect ratio is indeed the crispest. Everything looks freakishly
> huge at 1024x768 or less. Ubuntu looks so good on the  Mac, and the VMware
> virtual drivers seem to have no difficulty coping with resizing the host
> window, etc. It can't be impossible to get my monitor to work!
>
> In my xorg.conf file there are several listings of resolutions ranging
> from 2 to 24 bits, so something akin to that. Should I add "1280x1024_60" to
> all of them?
>
> many thanks,
>
> Les
>
> Dave Marple wrote:
>
> Hey,
> Getting xorg to work can sometimes be a huge headache.  The good news is
> that there is a GUI configuration in the works...the bad news is it isn't
> here yet.  Ubuntu should have no problem supporting your monitor, something
> tells me that ubuntu is probably supplying the wrong refresh rate.  Try
> putting in 1280x1084_60 which should force a 60hz refresh rate.  Otherwise
> copypaste me your xorg.conf and we'll try to get it sorted out.
>
> Best of luck.
> Elpram
>
> On 8/19/07, Les Wright < leslie.wright at alumni.uwo.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings Canadian Ubuntu users!
> >
> > I recently got a new iMac with lots of memory and have effortlessly
> > installed Feisty in a virtual machine under VMware Fusion. It looks and
> > runs beautifully there, and since I splurged on the extra 2GB of memory
> > (I got a good price through the York U computer store), I can run Ubuntu
> >
> > alongside XP and the native Mac OS easily. It only starts breathing hard
> > if if doing any disk intensive work that keeps the hard drive busy. I am
> > a very happy guy. I haven't been so happy with a computer since first
> > fooling around with the TRS-80 as a teen.
> >
> > My installation of Ubuntu to my old PC didn't go as smoothly. It works
> > well enough, and I am pleased my Netgear wireless card was recognized
> > out of the box and I could download needed updates and desired packages.
> >
> > But the monitor is another story.
> >
> > I have 19" Samsung Syncmaster 192N--an older monitor, but it works fine
> > and should achieve a maximum resolution of 1280x1024 but I haven't been
> > able to get above 1024x768 with the built in nv driver. The card is one
> > in NVidia GeForce4 MX series, don't know which one. I have gotten the
> > legacy driver that supports this card from the NVidia site. My first
> > install attempt led to me losing video and the monitor displaying a
> > little box saying "video mode not supported". The first couple of times
> > I did a complete reinstall of Ubuntu until I realized that Ctrl-Alt-F1
> > or Ctrl-Alt-F2 led me to the shell. The first couple of times I let the
> > nividia installer set up my xorg.conf file for me, but after a couple of
> > reinstalls I thought the wiser of that and Chose to try to make
> > adjustments manually. So I listed "nvidia" as the driver and removed
> > "nv" and couple of other options as specified in the Readme. The bottom
> > line is that if "nvidia" is in that line in lieu of "nv", I lose video
> > and have to go into the shell sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf to fix what I
> >
> > have changed to get video back again. I have tried added "1280x1084" to
> > the resolution options list, but it doesn't show up in the drop down
> > menu in the Screen Resolution options.
> >
> > The good thing is that my card reader on the old PC is recognized, so I
> > can easily back up my home directory and do a completely fresh
> > reisnstall of Ubuntu if that is what it takes. It is not crucial that I
> > get this old box to work, since my Mac version works so well, but it is
> > the pricinple of the thing. If there is a way to get the best resolution
> >
> > out of this Samsung monitor and NVidia card, I would like to know how. I
> > believe others have made this work.
> >
> > Many thanks
> > Les
> > Toronto
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