[CoLoCo] 8.10 Screen Resolution?

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What's wrong with system-> preferences -> screen resolution.

I have 4 choices while running on my laptop, and it works fine on my desktop,
too.

A lot more choices, but it still works.

It may be a driver issue, but nobody disabled nothin.


On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:04:44PM -0500, Michael Haney wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Don Schwartz <dSchwartz at aerorad.com> wrote:
> > u-Folks
> >
> > i've just loaded iBex (8.10) on a friend's olde pc.
> >
> > Everything works GREAT for her, EXCEPT i can ONLY seem to obtain 320x? OR
> > 640x? on Screen Resolution?????
> >
> > the box has a e-GeForce FX 5500 Video Card 256MB DDR AGP 8x/4x...........,
> >
> > i'm wondering if the Video card is NOT compatible ????
> >
> > ANY help would be appreciated.
> >
> > ALOHA
> >
> > Don (aka the lonely Buell)
> >
> 
> This is a big problem for which there is no elegant solution.  I
> consider this a design bug, the removal of the option to manually
> change your monitor settings was probably one of the most bone headed
> decisions I've ever seen in the development of Ubuntu.
> 
> For the Linux guru it can be a challenge to correct this problem, its
> why I'm using Kubuntu 8.04 instead of 8.10 because 8.10 gives me the
> same display resolution problems you are having.  Just imagine, the
> average user who is curious about Ubuntu tries the OS using Wubi, they
> run into this problem and bang their head against the wall for a few
> hours trying to fix it, they won't go searching online for a solution
> because most don't know to look online for help and they'll give up.
> They'll tell others to avoid Ubuntu and word starts to spread.  That's
> unacceptable and Canonical should be trying to fix this as fast as
> possible to prevent a scenario like that from happening.
> 
> As it is I'm seriously concerned with Ubuntu's future.  This may seem
> like a minor thing, but its a fundamental part of the OS and when one
> of the most basic and most important parts of the OS doesn't work
> right that sets off screaming klaxon alarms in my head that there is a
> serious problem here.
> 
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