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 rates

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

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 get

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 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 not

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 via the new

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? snip 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

[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

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

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 of the