Ubuntu 7.10 comes up in Low Video Resolution.

[Ralph Janke]

You need the proprietary nvidia driver. It must be installed
(it is in the restricted section which must be enabled) and
also configured in org.conf (nvidia instead of nv).

Hope this helps,

- Ralph

Alfred wrote:
> Hi:
>
> On a Hard Drive, I had 3 Partitions with, Ubuntu 7.10, Ubuntu Studio
> (7.10), and Ubuntu 8.04. I had many Problems with Ubuntu 8.04 (32 Bit),
> and I was not using Ubuntu Studio much. So I deleted the two Partitions
> with Ubuntu Studio, and Ubuntu 8.04. Then I put Ubuntu Ultimate Edition
> (7.10) in the new free space, created. It is working nicely; however,
> Ubuntu 7.10 that I use all the time, now Boots up in Low Screen
> Resolution. The Nvidia Drivers is enabled, but not is use, so there is
> no Accelerated Graphics happening. There does not seem to be a way to
> Get the Nvidia New Driver working. It's an Nvidia 5500. I tried to
> Remove the Nvidia New Driver, then re-install it, however, it will not
> let me do this even in Root, saying that Dpkg was interupted, and that I
> need to run 'dpkg--configure -a' however this does not work either. In
> add/remove it says that perhaps there might be two gconfigs, and that
> 'sudo nvidia-glx-config enable' might need to be run. this does not go
> anywhere because the XML file for gconfig seems to be missing. The
> second error that comes up says that the cache is open.
>
> I might try to install the older Nvidia driver, so that the new Driver
> would be removed, then try to install the new Driver again so that the
> old driver is removed. Anyone know how to get my High Resolution back?
>
> TIA
>
> Alfred!
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