Too wide of a screen

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 07:57 -0800, Ray Parrish wrote: 
> Hello,
> 
> I have just completed upgrading from 8.04 to 10.04 
> and now I have a few problems.
> 
> This first problem is that with my resolution set 
> to 1024x768 as I normally have it, the screen is 
> too wide and runs off the left side. My 
> applications menu on the top tool bar is almost 
> completely out of sight as it runs off the screen 
> on the left side.
> 
> For some mad reason as well, the tool bar on the 
> right side of my screen will not pop out when I 
> move my mouse to it. I can see it's edge sticking 
> out there, but it refuses to pop out when I move 
> the mouse pointer to it.
> 
> I have an Nvidia video card, and did note that 
> during the upgrade I was informed that 
> nvidia-glx-new could not be installed. Since 
> booting up I have gone to hardware drivers, and 
> enabled the recommended version of nvidia driver.
> 
> I have also gone into appearance, and enabled 
> hardware acceleration as well.
> 

Fire up the nVidia X-server setup thingie, go through the hoops and
allow it to save a new /etc/xorg.conf file. That's on the second tab.
Back up the old one first though. That should auto-configure your video
setup for you. Ric

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