Resolution Dilemma

[Alfred]

To Clarify:

Nvidia made Linux Drivers for all their Cards. They call it the Linux
Advantage, something like that. One Driver Fits all type of thing. My
Nvidia AGP 6200 works with an earlier Nvidia Driver, that works with
Ubuntu. I set it to 1280x1024 and it goes all the way down to 640x480. I
can use TV Out, and DVI if I want to. (About $79.00 for the 128MB
Version AGPx8) I get 320 Frames per second, in 3-d and 2-d, at millions
of colours. No more Jerky Video. On this list I was given 2 links on how
to set it up, after trying to do the set up for two years on my own. 20
minutes later, it worked just fine! The Book Beginning Ubuntu Linux from
Novice to Professional by Keir Thomas -Apress Books helped, also. There
are lots of tips on setting up Hardware for Ubuntu in there. (About
$30.00 in Canada.) 

ATI was bought by AMD - hmmm. I knew they were bought out, wasn't sure
who did that. It will be nice when Linux Drivers for everything become
available.

Alfred!


On Wed, 2007-16-05 at 06:22 -0400, Tee Jay Rosene wrote:
> 
> 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
>         >
>         > --