Introducing myself to the list, and a first question

[Dave Marple]

Good to hear, and best of luck with ubuntu!  And never hesitate to drop me a
line if you think I can help with something.

Dave

On 8/19/07, Les Wright <leslie_wright at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> Dave, your suggestion to append _60 worked! I now have nice crisp
> 1280x1024 resolution!
>
> I attach the working xorg.conf file.
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Les
>
> *Dave Marple <d.marple at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> 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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