[CoLoCo] 8.10 Screen Resolution?

[Michael Haney]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:15 PM, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you try Xubuntu?  Occasionally, that flavor of Ubuntu has a bit better
> luck guessing screen resolutions on older video cards.
>
> Also, you could try installing the proprietary nVidia driver from the
> Restricted Drivers Manager.
>
> -David
>

The whole point of Ubuntu was that people shouldn't have to do that in
order to get the OS to work.  Demand that manual changing of monitor
settings be designed back into the Screen Resolution dialog and
problem is fixed.  Why that feature was removed I have no idea but
whoever made the decision was an idiot.

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