Screen resolution

[Kjetil Halvorsen]

You are right, I have the nVidia card. But how do I
"enable the visual effects"?

Kjetil

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Gilles Gravier <gilles at gravier.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Karl Larsen wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> If you have an nvidia, just enabling the visual effects will trigger the
> download, install and activation of the proprietary (i.e. high
> performance, fancy admin interface) nvidia driver. Then you can launch
> the Nvidia Settings from the Applications System tab (or something
> close, depending on your GNOME configuration).
>
> That lets you configure everything on an nvidia graphics board.
>
> Gilles.
>
>
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