REALLY BACK AGAIN!

[Justin Wong]

Well, I'm just making wild guesses here, but perhaps Windows set something
on the video card or BIOS?  I have read of a few cases like this on the
forums, but it's strange, because there's no way Ubuntu can "read resolution
information" from Windows.

Justin

On 2/1/07, Master Cougar <master.cougar at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 1/31/07, Peter Whittaker <pwwnow at gmail.com<https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&to=pwwnow@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 16:34 -0500, Maurice Murphy wrote:
> > > I managed to trick the installation process by setting my Windows
> > > screen resolution to maximum, doing a warm boot from the Ubuntu CD.
> > > My analysis is that my box, or at least part of it, has a
> > > compatibility problem with Ubuntu, primarily in the video adapter
> > > department.
> >
> > I'm a real "if ain't broke don't fix it" kind of guy, so I will not
> > suggest changing anything... ...but Ubuntu doesn't know anything about
> > your machine's resolution under Windows.
>
>
>   Well, I had the same thing happen to me. When I  loaded Windows first,
> didn't  set the drivers for my video card and then installed  Ubuntu I did
> NOT get the resolution I got when I installed the windows drivers before
> installing Ubuntu.
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> When you boot into Ubuntu, whether from the CD or from the hard drive,
> > the resolution is determined by BIOS and Ubuntu settings alone. Windows
> > is not part of the picture.
> >
> > It's great that it works, but it's not because of some Windows dual boot
> > magic smoke!
> >
> > But like I say, if ain't broke don't fix it (I ran dual boot for months,
> >
> > til I missed the 3 or gigs being consumed by the unused Windows virus.
> > That was BE (before Edgy), and I've a feisty little system now).
> >
> > > Maurice from Nepean
> >
> > pww from Kanata
> >
> >
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