Open Office Ruined my Resolution

[natibo]

I had to force quit open office and reboot in order to open it again. When I rebooted, my screen resolution changed to 1280x768. I have no option to change it back to 1400x900.

I have a Sable runninh Hardy.

Help (Tom)?

[thomasaaron]

First, go to System > Preferences > Screen Resolution and see if you can select 1440 x 900.

If you are not offered that option, run your System76 driver (System > Admin > System76 Driver > Install Tab > Install Button) and then reboot your computer. Did that fix it?

If not, go to System > Administration > Hardware Drivers and see if your nVidia driver is enabled (if your Sable is one of the older, nvidia models). If not, enable it. Reboot.

Are you up and running?

[natibo]

None of this worked. I am not given an option for 1440x900. I even did a restore with the system76 drivers.

Whem I went to the Hardware Driver section it said no proprietary drivers were in use.

HELP!

[Martje_001]

None of this worked. I am not given an option for 1440x900. I even did a restore with the system76 drivers.

Whem I went to the Hardware Driver section it said no proprietary drivers were in use.

HELP!
You can install the driver with 'Hardware Drivers' or EnvyNG.

[thomasaaron]

Try going to a command line and running...

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new
sudo nvidia-xconfig
sudo reboot now

[natibo]

That made it worse.

Here is the error I get.

natibo@ubuntu:~$ sudo nvidia-xconfig

Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".

VALIDATION ERROR: Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
Device section "Configured Video Device" must have a Driver
line.

Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'
New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'

When I did a reboot, X would not start. I had to do a reconfigure from the command prompt. Now, visual effects will not work.

[thomasaaron]

OK, does the nVidia driver now show up in System > Admin > Hardware Drivers? If so, select it and reboot.

If not, contact me via email (support(at)system76(dot)com).

Question, did you try installing nvidia drivers from nvidia's website? If so, that would explain a lot.