Re: Changing Screen Resolution

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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