Screen resolution loop [help!]

[Leonard Chatagnier]

I think the command is nvidia-xconfig and should be run with sudo.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net


--- On Sat, 9/27/08, David Armour <d.f.armour at shaw.ca> wrote:

> From: David Armour <d.f.armour at shaw.ca>
> Subject: Re: Screen resolution loop [help!]
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 4:53 PM
> Rashkae <ubuntu <at> tigershaunt.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > > <snip> 
> > >>> screen resolution seems flawed, at this
> point. 
> > >>>
> > >> David, I still haven't heard, have you
> tried the Xfix solution?  (ie,
> > >> boot into rescue mode from your grub menu and
> choose xfix option from
> > > 
> > Keep in mind that after you do xfix, you will probably
> have to start the
> > restricted driver manager and enable the binary driver
> for your video
> > (ATI or Nvidia),,but a clean slate xorg.conf from xfix
> should at least
> > get you going.
> 
> Reporting in...:
> 
> Hitting ESC during the boot sequence did allow me to
> continue booting in
> recovery mode which subsequently enabled xfix, fsck, and
> the eventual resumption
> of standard log in. (Thank you for suggesting that
> strategy.) 
> 
> BUT, no amount of tinkering in the console, left or right
> mouse button clicking,
> or downloading and installing an additional 137 updates led
> any closer to
> increased screen real estate. A couple of times -- sudo
> /etc/init.d/gdm restart
> ...for example, or crtl-alt-backspace -- in fact led back
> to that ol' black
> screen, the reset button, and good old recovery mode
> re-booting. A few consoles
> reported "command not found" for stuff such as
> "sudo nvidia-config", or display
> info screens with puzzling contents such as "a
> gvfsd-trash closed unexpectedly",
> or "Desktop effects could not be enabled." 
> 
> I'm not just stumped; I'm dangerously close to
> being ground up into sawdust, and
> fed to the pulp mill.  I wouldn't have thought altering
> screen resolution would
> entail quite this much sturm und drang for a comparatively
> straightforward
> (vanilla, even) install, for either LTS or Alpha6.
> 
> Where would the Restricted Driver Manager reside? I recall
> a panel icon in an
> earlier incarnation, but I couldn't see one this time.
> Nothing much resembling
> it showed up in the menus. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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