Resolution Dilemma

[Tee Jay Rosene]

First, ATI was bought by AMD. Secondly, I'm pretty sure the graphics card on
my system is made by Intel, not ATI or Nvidia.

ATI was bought out- not sure whom did that, but might have been Nvidia,
> and they made Linux drivers for all their cards.
> Alf
>
> On Tue, 2007-15-05 at 19:33 -0400, Tee Jay Rosene wrote:
> > I hope someone can help me: I'm stuck at 640x480 resolution and it's
> > terrible!
> > I've recently installed Kubuntu 7.04 on an IBM desktop PC with a
> > 82845G/GL [Brookdale G]/GE Chipset integrated graphics Device
> >
> > Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
> > Mesa DRI Intel (R) 845G 20061007 x86/MMX/SSE2
> > Open GL version 1.3 Mesa 6.5.2
> > Kernel Module i915 (I added this after)
> > My Monitor is a ViewSonic Ultrabrite E70f+
> >
> > Anyway, since this installation, I've been told that I should
> > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> > and this essentially broke my system.
> > Although I did get a proper resolution display, my machine kept
> > rebooting itself every 10 seconds or so, and I wasn't able to even try
> > to figure out what the heck the problem was because it was rebooting
> > so quickly.
> > I have since reinstalled Ubuntu (instead of Kubuntu) hoping that
> > Ubuntu would be a little easier to configure (I don't know if this
> > matters or not). And anyway, I can reinstall KDE after I get the
> > monitor displaying properly.
> > Any help in this will be much appreciated
> >
> > --
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