Help with resolution settings

[Basil Chupin]

On 08/09/2010 15:09, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 12:49 +1000, James Takac wrote:
>    
>> Hi Basil
>>
>> On Wednesday 08 September 2010 09:52:06 Basil Chupin wrote:
>>      
>>> On 08/09/2010 09:28, James Takac wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Hi Johnny
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday 07 September 2010 23:18:21 Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>>>          
>>>>> Den 2010-09-07 14:41:39 skrev Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>:
>>>>>            
>>>>>> On 09/07/2010 01:52 AM, Vic Main wrote:
>>>>>>              
>>>>>>> Hi...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I need some help with the resolution settings and how to change them.
>>>>>>> I have a *NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 with AGP8X card, *when I downloaded
>>>>>>> the suggested driver and activated it,
>>>>>>>    I could change the shadow on the mouse pointer, but my choices for
>>>>>>> resolution were 320x240 and 640x480. Not very useful!!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The generic Ubuntu driver gives me a choice of 640x480, 800x600, and
>>>>>>> 1024,x768. I would like to have a resolution of 1280x1024 if possible.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's the resolution I'm running on the same monitor with windows.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The monitor is a Daytek LCD 19", but haven't got the model, have to
>>>>>>> dig around for that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any answers most appreciated
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Vic
>>>>>>> *
>>>>>>>                
>>>>>>        Hi Vic, you need to learn which Ubuntu version your using. I
>>>>>> assume it is 10.04 but you don't say.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Since you know the video card, you should be able to find the exact
>>>>>> driver software for your system. Try going to the NVIDIA web page and
>>>>>> look for the driver for a MX440 card.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 73 Karl
>>>>>>              
>>>>> Didn't he just say that he did that?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Johnny Rosenberg
>>>>>            
>>>> I believe he did. The notebook I'm on at the moment has the same card and
>>>> is running 8.04 with suggested driver.
>>>>          
>>> What is this "suggested driver"? Perhaps this is where the problem may
>>> lie - how about mentioning the driver number, what do you think?
>>>
>>> BC
>>>
>>> --
>>> ...more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by
>>> drinking alcohol. W C Fields
>>>        
>>
>> It's been quite a while since I installed the driver and remember going to the
>> nvidia website searching for it, downloading and installing it. Seems however
>> my system has for some reason reverted to the nvidia glx driver? Considering
>> that I didn't change it to that I find that interesting. In synaptic I can
>> see a glx legacy So I'm going to have to look at that again. Back then I
>> matched the recommended driver from the site and installed. Got the black
>> screen on boot and had to edit for only the 2d side of the driver. Somewhere
>> over the week I'll go thru and see if an updated driver exists or maybe now
>> the glx legacy driver maybe works
>>      
> I gave up using the driver .run package straight from nVidia as there
> seems to be conflicts with it and the Ubuntu lib scheme of things. At
> least that has been my experience. So, I just use "hardware drivers" and
> let it pick the driver and install it. Works good. Ric
>    


I always used to download the latest and greatest nVidia drivers from 
nVidia and then do the '"sh" shuffle' to have them compiled and installed.

Since I've gone Ubuntu I just let the System>Administration>Hardware 
Drivers option do the installation for me - the only choice I need to 
make here is which one of the 3 suggested drivers to choose.

Has worked here every time.

BC


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