Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution issues with Ver 7.04

2007-05-17 Thread christopher chatfield
Search for the Horizontal and vertical synchs of your monitor on the web. Look up available screen resolutions too. sudo pico /etc/X11/xorg.conf Add appropriate new resolutions to each of the the "screen" sections (highest first) in the section "monitor" put in the hor sync and vert refresh ra

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution issues with Ver 7.04

2007-05-15 Thread Alan Pope
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:16:30AM +0100, George MacLeod wrote: > For that particular machine I selected the nVidia card and this worked. > Also I just tried the same technique on another PC with the same problem and > it had an ATI card but again I could only get 1024 x 768. > Although you may

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution issues with Ver 7.04

2007-05-15 Thread George MacLeod
For that particular machine I selected the nVidia card and this worked. Also I just tried the same technique on another PC with the same problem and it had an ATI card but again I could only get 1024 x 768. On 15/05/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:16:54AM

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution issues with Ver 7.04

2007-05-15 Thread Alan Pope
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:16:54AM +0100, George MacLeod wrote: > I did find one solution that worked on another machine for me > > sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -phigh > then CTRL+ALT+BKSPACE to reload X > > which allowed me to select the driver and resolution, however I was only > able to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution issues with Ver 7.04

2007-05-15 Thread George MacLeod
I did find one solution that worked on another machine for me sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -phigh then CTRL+ALT+BKSPACE to reload X which allowed me to select the driver and resolution, however I was only able to get 1024 x 768 whilst the same machine under Windows went much higher. On 14

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution issues with Ver 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread I C McNab
George MacLeod wrote: > Has anyone else experienced screen resolution problems with installing > Ubuntu 7.04? > Then this morning I booted from from the 7.04 install CD on a Dell Dimension > 5150 dual core with screen resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 only to find that > Ubuntu live CD only offered 6

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution issues with Ver 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Samuel Toogood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lucy wrote: >>> I just wondered if any one else had experienced this behaviour. >>> Cheers >>> Seoras >> This happened to me when running an Alpha version with the nVidia >> driver, however it is now fixed for me at least with the driver >> installed v

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution issues with Ver 7.04

2007-05-11 Thread Lucy
> > I just wondered if any one else had experienced this behaviour. > > Cheers > > Seoras > This happened to me when running an Alpha version with the nVidia > driver, however it is now fixed for me at least with the driver > installed via the new restricted drivers manager.. > > Maybe the transfer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution issues with Ver 7.04

2007-05-11 Thread Alex Latchford
George MacLeod wrote: > Has anyone else experienced screen resolution problems with installing > Ubuntu 7.04? > > I recently upgraded a version 6.10 installation on line to version > 7.04, it all went well until l re-booted the system, only to find I > was restricted to 800 x 600 or 640 x 400 resol

[ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution issues with Ver 7.04

2007-05-11 Thread George MacLeod
Has anyone else experienced screen resolution problems with installing Ubuntu 7.04? I recently upgraded a version 6.10 installation on line to version 7.04, it all went well until l re-booted the system, only to find I was restricted to 800 x 600 or 640 x 400 resolutions whereas before I had the