Changing Screen Resolution

[Dustin Breese]

Indeed -- that happened to me just last week.  I was getting lock-ups
and had to do a hard reboot.  Luckily, double checked and the nVidia
Restriced Drivers were somehow UNCHECKED even though I had done it
previously.

-Dustin

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:16 PM, James Takac <p3nndrag0n at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael
>
> On Wednesday 17 September 2008 02:59:45 Michael "TheZorch" Haney wrote:
>> James Takac wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > On Monday 15 September 2008 04:50:49 San Goldberger wrote:
>> >> Just Installed Ubuntu, very impressed so far. But having trouble
>> >> changing my screen resolution to somthing normale.  Just after
>> >> installing Ubuntu it was fine untill I downloaded all the updates and
>> >> driver for my Nvidia graphics card. Since restart system has been
>> >> teribble to work with. Under SYSTEM PREFRENCES, Screen Resolution, it
>> >> only gives me an option up to 640x480 Max
>> >>
>> >> Please any help will be appriciated.
>> >
>> > You haven't given very much detail here but I suspect you haven't enabled
>> > your nVidia's restricted driver. Try going through
>> >
>> > System -> Administration -> Restricted Drivers Manager
>> >
>> > and check the driver for your nVida card if it's not already checked. I
>> > believe then you'll need to either reboot or log out and back in using
>> > CTRL + ALT + BKSP
>> >
>> > James
>>
>> I'm sorry Goldberger but some people on this list don't know how to read
>> people's posts.  You clearly wrote that you installed the driver and
>> rebooted, and after that your resolution was limited to 640x480.  Anyone
>> on this list should then immediately understand that this means the
>> driver is enabled because this problem has come up several times
>> before.  READ PEOPLE'S POSTS!
>>
>> To correct this problem in Ubuntu you need to shutdown X.org, and then
>> you run the reconfigure program.
>>
>> First you use this to shutdown X.org:
>> Press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE
>> (Please note, this is where I had trouble.  For me this only restarted
>> X.org instead of shutting it down, but it might work for you.)
>>
>> If that doesn't work open a terminal and use this:
>> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
>>
>> You should get a text login prompt, login with your username and
>> password and at the command prompt use this command:
>> sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
>>
>> Follow the prompts, keep the selected options until you get to the
>> settings for your monitor.  Once you reboot and X.org starts you should
>> be able to change your screen resolution.
>>
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>
>
> Installing the driver and rebooting doesn't automatically activate it though.
> In the past I've installed nVidia drivers and rebooted only to see similar to
> the original posters problem only to find the driver wasn't actually
> activated or enabled. Maybe you can show me where he said it was definitely
> activated ;)
>
> James
>
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