Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

Thanks for all the input. Regarding bug reporting: One last thing then, since i had enough memory to run the resolutions but the advanced effects were messing up the presentation, is it worth filling a bug on this? >From Jim I suspect there are already a number of bugs on this, but i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

On Aug 11, 2011 9:19 PM, "Colin Law" wrote: > > On 11 August 2011 19:29, Liam Proven wrote: > > [...] > > For this reason, I position my smaller screen aligned with the top of > > my larger screen. That way, under Unity, I get the top panel/menu bar > > on both monitors, and there's nothing to "f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

On 11 August 2011 19:29, Liam Proven wrote: > [...] > For this reason, I position my smaller screen aligned with the top of > my larger screen. That way, under Unity, I get the top panel/menu bar > on both monitors, and there's nothing to "fall off" the bottom - > unlike classic GNOME. Works rathe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

On 10 August 2011 18:41, Jim Price wrote: > I think something is up with the attributions here - thunderbird and gmane > are telling me this post is from Liam, but I think it may have been said by > some combination of Liam and James, or just James: Odd. You replied a bit to both of us. :¬) > T

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

On 11 August 2011 12:13, James Morrissey wrote: > So Colin's suggestion worked! :¬) Excellent! > Once i logged in with Ubuntu classic desktop (no effects) i could set > the resolution i wanted (via monitor preferences) and everything > works. I am somewhat embarrassed that i didn't see that opti

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

On 11 August 2011 12:13, James Morrissey wrote: > So Colin's suggestion worked! Wow, amazing. Apparently "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" is not always true. > > Once i logged in with Ubuntu classic desktop (no effects) i could set > the resolution i wanted (via monitor preferences) an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

On 11/08/11 12:13, James Morrissey wrote: So Colin's suggestion worked! Once i logged in with Ubuntu classic desktop (no effects) i could set the resolution i wanted (via monitor preferences) and everything works. I am somewhat embarrassed that i didn't see that option when i first tried this.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

So Colin's suggestion worked! Once i logged in with Ubuntu classic desktop (no effects) i could set the resolution i wanted (via monitor preferences) and everything works. I am somewhat embarrassed that i didn't see that option when i first tried this. The only issue i am left with now is that sc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

Hi James, On 11/08/11 10:14, James Morrissey wrote: - Asus A6Rp; Asus A6 series entertainment notebook Rats - the ASUS page with the spec on it isn't working in Firefox or Chromium... It should be here:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

Hi Jim and Colin, Sorry about the delayed reply, my internet is down at home, being fixed tomorrow. Jim, the email you responded to was from a combination of Liam and I. In response: Can you tell us what model of laptop you have there, so I can google for the graphics configuration it supports?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

I think something is up with the attributions here - thunderbird and gmane are telling me this post is from Liam, but I think it may have been said by some combination of Liam and James, or just James: On 10/08/11 15:13, Liam Proven wrote: On 10 August 2011 14:37, James Morrissey wrote: - -

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

On 10 August 2011 12:00, James Morrissey wrote: > Hi all, > > I posted this on the forums yesterday, but haven't had much luck. I > was wondering if anyone here could help. > > I am trying to set up dual monitors in Ubuntu, with the two monitors > having different resolutions. One monitor is on my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

On 10 August 2011 14:37, James Morrissey wrote: > In response to your questions, please bear with me as i don't know a > great deal about this stuff. > > For the two monitors i would like to have one showing at > 1280x800 and the other at 1280x1024. At the moment the resolution has > defaulted to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

On 10 August 2011 12:00, James Morrissey wrote: > Hi all, > > I posted this on the forums yesterday, but haven't had much luck. I > was wondering if anyone here could help. > > I am trying to set up dual monitors in Ubuntu, with the two monitors > having different resolutions. One monitor is on my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

On 10/08/11 12:00, James Morrissey wrote: Hi all, I posted this on the forums yesterday, but haven't had much luck. I was wondering if anyone here could help. I am trying to set up dual monitors in Ubuntu, with the two monitors having different resolutions. One monitor is on my laptop and the o

[ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution problems on dual-monitor setup

Hi all, I posted this on the forums yesterday, but haven't had much luck. I was wondering if anyone here could help. I am trying to set up dual monitors in Ubuntu, with the two monitors having different resolutions. One monitor is on my laptop and the other is an external monitor. I have an ATI R

[ubuntu-uk] screen resolution

Hi All "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" worked perfectly. Thanks Pascal ___ Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screen resolution, configuration details, graphics card

On 06/11/2007, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:19 +, Kris Douglas wrote: > > > > > > On 06/11/2007, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Pascal, > > > > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 14:33 +, Pascal Khoury wrote: > > > My graphics card

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screen resolution, configuration details, graphics card

On 06/11/2007, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:19 +, Kris Douglas wrote: > > > A good thing to do is install 915resolution from synaptic, it lets you > > force the screen resolution, works well on my MicroPC > > > > 915resolution is not required if you use th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screen resolution, configuration details, graphics card

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:19 +, Kris Douglas wrote: > > > On 06/11/2007, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Pascal, > > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 14:33 +, Pascal Khoury wrote: > > My graphics card is an Intel 945 i810. > > A fine exampl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screen resolution, configuration details, graphics card

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:19 +, Kris Douglas wrote: > A good thing to do is install 915resolution from synaptic, it lets you > force the screen resolution, works well on my MicroPC > 915resolution is not required if you use the "intel" video driver. It's only needed with the "i810" one. Ch

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screen resolution, configuration details, graphics card

On 06/11/2007, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Pascal, > > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 14:33 +, Pascal Khoury wrote: > > My graphics card is an Intel 945 i810. > > A fine example of a video card. There is an "i810" driver, and now in > 7.10 (Gutsy) the "intel" driver which is much better.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screen resolution, configuration details, graphics card

Hi Pascal, On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 14:33 +, Pascal Khoury wrote: > My graphics card is an Intel 945 i810. A fine example of a video card. There is an "i810" driver, and now in 7.10 (Gutsy) the "intel" driver which is much better. > Does that help? I reckon there must a way to adjust my screen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screen resolution, configuration details, graphics card

Michael Holloway wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 14:33 +, Pascal Khoury wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> My graphics card is an Intel 945 i810. >> >> Does that help? I reckon there must a way to adjust my screen >> resolution from the Terminal. I need to get a resolution better than >> 1024x768. >> >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screen resolution, configuration details, graphics card

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 14:33 +, Pascal Khoury wrote: > Hi All, > > My graphics card is an Intel 945 i810. > > Does that help? I reckon there must a way to adjust my screen > resolution from the Terminal. I need to get a resolution better than > 1024x768. > > Please advise > > Thanks > Pasca

[ubuntu-uk] screen resolution, configuration details, graphics card

Hi All, My graphics card is an Intel 945 i810. Does that help? I reckon there must a way to adjust my screen resolution from the Terminal. I need to get a resolution better than 1024x768. Please advise Thanks Pascal ___ Yahoo!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen Resolution Crossover

Hello Team When I run a windows application through crossover everything is fine but when i exit the program my screen resolution goes to 1280 which was what it was when i first installed, the problem is my monitor only supports 1024. Thanks in advance. Stuart -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com htt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-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

> > 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

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

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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution on startup

On 25 Feb 2007, at 07:15, Andrew Black wrote: > When I boot my Edgy machine the startup screen dialogue doesn't > display anything > and the moniotor wants me to change to 1280 x 1024. > The same happens during shutdown > > How can I get the startup/shutdown to display? Sounds like it's incapa

[ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution on startup

When I boot my Edgy machine the startup screen dialogue doesn't display anything and the moniotor wants me to change to 1280 x 1024. The same happens during shutdown How can I get the startup/shutdown to display? Once the sysetm is up a X-windows logon screen appears OK. VGA compatible control