9.10 Frustrations

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Sun, December 20, 2009 02:21, John Graddy wrote:
> 9.10 is the first Ubuntu release with which I have been unable to get a
> satisfactory install.  My monitor (which has worked with several
> releases) always gets set at a resolution of 600X800.  I have always run
> it at much higher resolutions.  The installation process (from the Live
> CD) never asks for any information on the monitor.  I even moved a
> relatively new LED flat screen monitor from another computer to my
> system as a test, and it also got set to a resolution of 600X800.
>
> At this resolution, using Evolution email or the Firefox web browser are
> no fun.  I find myself constantly moving windows around so that I can
> see the full content.  In doing so, I found that resizing the numerous
> fields in the Evolution window no longer work.  The window is the same
> width as the monitor screen and I suspect that this has something to do
> with the problem.
>
> Through frustration and confusion (plus a little ignorance), I've
> managed to lose my email - including a whole bunch of mail from this
> mailing list that I was saving to help me out of previously found
> problems.
>
> Has anyone else had these kinds of problems?  If I could get around the
> screen resolution problem a lot of the frustration would be resolved.

Hi John,

Are you using a nVidia or ATI card?
You may have to install the proprietary drivers.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto

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Amedee