Screen resolution

[Karl Larsen]

Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
> Hola!
>
> I recently installed ubuntu (8.04) on a brand new excellent laptop.
> But the screen is only recognised in low resolution, 800x600, which is way
> to
> bad. From menu Preferences > Screen resolution it is NOT offered any higher
> resolution, such
> as 1024x768, which I am sure is possible. What to do? I'm sure it should be
> easy!
>
> Kjetil
>
>   
    I expect you have a nVidia video device. You can tell this by 
writing in a terminal $ lspci | video and if you do have nVidia you need 
to get the better driver software either from Ubuntu or the nVidia web page.

Karl


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