Help with screen resolution 7.04

[Ashfaq Shaikh]

Message: 5
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:33:27 +0200
From: "Richard Bennett" <richard.bennett at skynet.be>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Help for Screen resolution
To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
        <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:31:49 +0200, Ashfaq Shaikh
<ashfaq.s76 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

>  tried to reconfigure xorg, from recovery at boot, did all the steps
as
> instructed but no change. Although I did choose the required
resolution  
> of
> 1440x900 in xorg config, but after rebooting no change is seen,
accept  
> one!
> now if I enable the nvidia restricted driver the pc reboots in Ubuntu
but
> the desktop freezes. Nothing works after clicking, and I had to go  
> through
> reconfiguration again but the problem with resolution is not resoved.

I don't know the real sollution, but I know that a lot of work has
been  
done in Gutsy to improve xorg's usability, including a GUI tool for  
switching screen resolutions.
I'm running Gutsy on my main machine, and it is pretty stable, not
really  
had any problems with it.
So if you can risk running pre-Beta software and have 3 hours time and
a  
broadband connection, you can upgrade your Feisty to Gutsy. To do that
do:
update-manager -d
on the commandline.
It will open the update manager with the option to upgrade to Gutsy  
displayed.

Hope that helps...

Richard


I tried your solution Richard, in terminal I pasted the command provided
by you. The upgrade process did start, but was locked at the second
stage at 44 of 64 that is upgrading software channels twice! I will try
once, going into recovery mode, and pasting the same command if it
works, by the time a new suggestion comes from you.

Thanks,
Ashfaq.