Upgrade?

[redester]

Like a moth to the flame I was lured into upGRADING from 7.10 to 8.04.1. :-(

And now, have spent two days trying to change my screen from the 8-04 defaulted 800x600 to 1024x768 as it was. No luck at all.

I have now lost apps that depended on 1024x768.

As the saying, "Feeling lucky? Upgrade your software! SOB

[Sef]

1) What are your system specs, especially your graphics card?

2) Have you upgraded to 8.04.4, the current version?

[redester]

Thanks Sef,

1. Graphix card is VESA compatible. Works fine in Ubuntu 7.10 @ 1024x768. But, refuses to play with 8.04.4??? 'Just stuck at 800x600. I've edited xorg.conf a number of times without success. The monitor is a HANNS.G, JC199D which also had no problems with 7.10. The xorg.conf has shown it as HP 14 inch. Of course the only drivers for it is for *******.

2. Yes, 8.04.4

System is deteriorating and losing Apps as I hammer away at it. Just lost XMMS and NeroLINUX(Bought version $$ and source no longer exists on the machine). HATE that!

I have an older HD with 7.10 installed which I used to migrate to this larger HD in 2008. But hate to lose the data base gained here on this larger HD. BTW, 'running 3 OS' on the same spindle and the other OS's, DR-DOS and WinXP have also been updated. 'Would also lose data on the other two OS's. That's why I don't want to give up on this drive.

All comments are appreciated,

[kansasnoob]

Would you post the terminal output of;


lspci | grep VGA

[kansasnoob]

System is deteriorating and losing Apps as I hammer away at it. Just lost XMMS and NeroLINUX(Bought version $$ and source no longer exists on the machine). HATE that!

Apps often do have to be reinstalled after an upgrade.

Sadly you would have had to upgrade sooner or later because 7.10 has not been supported since April 2009.

[redester]

lspci | grep VGA

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

[redester]

Here's the whole 9 yards as configured...

xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)

#
# This file was generated by failsafeDexconf, using
# values from the debconf database and some overrides to use vesa mode.
#
# You should use dexconf or another such tool for creating a "real" xorg.conf
# For example:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
#
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Boardname "vesa"
Busid "PCI:2:0:0"
Driver "vesa"
Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
Vendorname "Generic CRT Display"
Modelname "Monitor 1024x768"
Horizsync 31.5-61.0
Vertrefresh 50-75
modeline "640x480@60" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -vsync -hsync
modeline "640x480@72" 31.5 640 664 704 832 480 489 491 520 -vsync -hsync
modeline "640x480@75" 31.5 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -vsync -hsync
modeline "800x600@56" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@72" 50.0 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@75" 49.5 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@60" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
modeline "832x624@75" 57.284 832 864 928 1152 624 625 628 667 -vsync -hsync
modeline "1024x768@75" 78.8 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1024x768@70" 75.0 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
modeline "1024x768@60" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
modeline "1280x960@60" 102.1 1280 1360 1496 1712 960 961 964 994 -hsync +vsync
Gamma 1.0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Defaultdepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 1280 960
Modes "800x600@75" "800x600@60" "800x600@72" "832x624@75" "800x600@56" "1024x768@75" "640x480@75" "1024x768@70" "640x480@72" "1024x768@60" "640x480@60" "1280x960@60"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "GLcore"
Load "v4l"
EndSection
Section "device" #
Identifier "device1"
Boardname "vesa"
Busid "PCI:2:0:0"
Driver "vesa"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "screen" #
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Defaultdepth 24
Monitor "monitor1"
EndSection
Section "monitor" #
Identifier "monitor1"
Gamma 1.0
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

[gradinaruvasile]

lspci | grep VGA

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

You have a nvidia device there. Why not install its proprietary driver (which is really good, i have a rig running Ubuntu 8.10 on this type of card with the restricted driver for about 1-1.5 years, works perfectly)?

[kansasnoob]

Have you tried the nvidia drivers?

Just go to System > Administration > hardware drivers:

http://seogadget.co.uk/how-to-install-a-nvidia-display-driver-in-ubuntu/

I don't know if you want to enable "extra" effects or not. I usually don't with "on-board" video.

[redester]

'Been there, done that, makes no difference....#-o
There must have been a devil in the "Upgrade" and brought Hell with him as that is what it has been for five (5) days now!!

[markbuntu]

System/Preferences/Screen Resolution?

[redester]

Stystem/preferences/screen resolution

800x600 @ 73 HZ is all that's offered.

[kansasnoob]

Try:


sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Reboot and see what happens. If it's still not happy make no edits to "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" but rather try to enable the proprietary driver as previously described, and of course reboot again.

[redester]

I've done all of the above mentioned things countless times over the past six days of intensive effort on this machine.

The screen is fine with 7.10 and ******* XP.

During the Boot process and on the first screen I can see the mouse cursor smaller as in 1024x768 screen. However, the next screen reverts to 800x600 and the cursor becomes larger as does the loaded contents of the desktop.

I can only assume that 8.04.4 is my personal enemy at this time!!!:confused: Something is very wrong in the Boot process and cannot be overridden by any effort on my part. See prior posts.....

It it were not for the other OS' on the disk I "migrated" from being old as of 2008 I would replace this one. It is a PITA working with this lower rez screen, but I see no recourse but to wait it out until 8.04.4 is FIXED!!!

[kansasnoob]

It's doubtful there will be any huge changes to Hardy's Xorg at this point since it's nearly two years old.

You could try Xorg-edgers:

https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=hardy

But take note of this from their main page:


Packages for those who think development versions, experimental and unstable are for old ladies. We want our crack straight from upstream git! Well, straight, we want it built and packaged so we don't need to know what we're doing, except that we will break our X and put our computers on fire.

https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers

Personally I've had good luck with their packages, but I've never used the same graphics card you have.

[redester]

HEY!!!! It's fixed.

While scrabbling around to get sound to play with Open Office I found a note re: sudo apt-get install displayconfig-gtk

Did that and found System>preferences>screen resolution would then work!!!

Even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then!! :D

Thanks to all,

Ray:D

[kansasnoob]

HEY!!!! It's fixed.

While scrabbling around to get sound to play with Open Office I found a note re: sudo apt-get install displayconfig-gtk

Did that and found System>preferences>screen resolution would then work!!!

Even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then!! :D

Thanks to all,

Ray:D

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!