SOLVED Re: Still trying to get to 1680x1050 WAS: Upgrade to 8.04 stuck in 800x600

[Derek Broughton]

NoOp wrote:

> On 10/23/2008 08:38 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> NoOp wrote:
>> 
>>> It's still listed in the Canadian mirrors... Open Synaptic & check on
>>> Repositories & Canada. I just switched to gulus.usherbrooke.ca to test
>>> and it seems to work just fine.
>> 
>> I tried that, and it doesn't give me a selection for "Canada", I have to
>> fill in my own URLs.
>> 
>> Adept let me select "Canada", but only gives me ca.archive.ubuntu.com -
>> no wonder I was surprised to find gulus.sherbrooke.ca was official.
> 
> Odd. In Synaptic:
> 
> Settings|Repositories|Download from|Other| and I see Australia, Austria,
> Belglium, Bosina & Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, CS, Canada,
> etc., etc. And under Canada I see:
> 
> ftp.cs.mun.ca
> gpl.savoirfairelinux.net
> gulus.usherbrooke.ca
> mirror.arcticnetwork.ca
> mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca
> mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
> ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca
> 
> I'll fire up the KDE machine later & see that that shows.

Adept initially gave me the option "Download from:" with a drop down
of "Main Server, Server from Canada, Other..." and "Other" lets me select
those.

Synaptic 0.61ubuntu9 doesn't give me a "Download from:" option at all.  Are
you sure that's not Update Manager?
-- 
derek