Some question in using Ubuntu

Daniel Robitaille robitaille at gmail.com
Tue May 10 03:57:04 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-05 at 10:32 +0700, Cao Van Khanh wrote:

> When I install Ubuntu in expert mode , it ask me to set root password
> and I did ( I also add a normal account and use it to login at the
> fist boot ) . When I tried to use root’s terminal , it asked me to
> type the root’s password and I did , but it tell me that’s wrong . I
> tried “sudo passwd root” and type something but it did not accept ( I
> do not know why ) .

if you use "sudo", then the password that command expects is your user
password, not the root password.  I suspect it is the same "problem"
with the root terminal.


> The second problem is the resolution , I do not think the ability of
> recognizing hardware of Ubuntu is not good because my PC run on Intel
> 845G chipset and the VGA in onboard . It only give me 480x600 of
> resolution , and the refresh rate is 60Hz ! ! ! How to fix it in
> “unbutu “ , I would like to find out how ubuntu handle it before I
> have to change xorg configuration by hand .

before you try to change this file by hand, have you tried:
 sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg



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