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Screen Resolution Problems Hardy

Asked by John Garry Zuidema

Before in earlier versions Ubuntu you were able to pick a monitor and video card type and set those values. If that failed you could hand configure xorg.conf.
Now you are not able to pick your monitor type our video card. You just get a screen that says "Unknown" for the monitor type and in my case
resolution settings that are unsatisfactory. And the kicker is when you go into xorg.conf their are no specific values for monitor type our video card just generic values. And they call this progress? Is their some type of utility that will let you pick from a database for monitor and video card types. It use to be so easy now they try to dumb it down just like Gnome. And f it up

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Please paste the output of

lspci

here

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John Garry Zuidema (jgz) said : 		#2

root@jgz-desktop:/home/jgz# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16)
00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1010 Ultra3 SCSI Adapter (rev 01)
00:0a.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1010 Ultra3 SCSI Adapter (rev 01)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev a1)

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Best Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#3

If you have a nvdia card then:

Enable universe repos first

Refer:

http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/sources

then type in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk
sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings
envyng -g

Then follow onscreen instructions, reboot and then run

sudo nvidia-settings

to fix screen resolution

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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John Garry Zuidema (jgz) said : 		#4

I found out about the envng-gtk utility yesterday when I googled my problem. But was unaware of the nvidia-settings
window as the window comes up small and you need to open it up to discover what you can set. After installing the video drivers I still had a problem with the GDM login window as it would only show a portion of the screen. I fixed this by commenting out all of the screen resolutions except for what I was using. Thanks for your time it is very much appreciated. jgz