seancyril
January 7th, 2010, 06:31 PM
Hi there, I recently bought myself a 22" widescreen LG monitor and am running Ubuntu 8.10 with it. Trouble is when I set the screen resolution to 1920*1080 which is the actual resolution of the monitor it shrinks the text and web pages to miniscule proportions. Text becomes tiny and web pages with firefox display as a column occupying about a third of the screen.
I have to decrease the resolution to 1024*768 which makes web pages display better (at least they take up the whole screen) but the text becomes too large and stretched and looks pretty ugly - as well as giving me a headache.
Is there some way to install the proprietory drivers that came with the monitor? They are an .inf file on the supplied disc
I have a Nividia graphics card a GE Force FX 5200
I also have the 173.14.12 Nividia driver installed if this means anything to anyone- not to me!
Has anyone else had similar problems trying to get Ubuntu set up on a widescreen monitor and managed to solve the problem?
Any suggestions welcome
Many thanks
Sean
I have to decrease the resolution to 1024*768 which makes web pages display better (at least they take up the whole screen) but the text becomes too large and stretched and looks pretty ugly - as well as giving me a headache.
Is there some way to install the proprietory drivers that came with the monitor? They are an .inf file on the supplied disc
I have a Nividia graphics card a GE Force FX 5200
I also have the 173.14.12 Nividia driver installed if this means anything to anyone- not to me!
Has anyone else had similar problems trying to get Ubuntu set up on a widescreen monitor and managed to solve the problem?
Any suggestions welcome
Many thanks
Sean