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Richard3
July 24th, 2010, 03:56 PM
Hi. I am a new user. I installed 10.4 on my Satellite Pro via CD replacing XP.
Screen resolution is now only 800x600 which fills only 3/4 of available screen space and there are no greater options in System Preferences Monitors. It is also operating rather slower than the previous OS, maybe these two issues are connected?
I have checked Administration for any required Proprietary Drivers. There is just one for a modem which is activated.
During installation I aborted it then closed down and restarted, which may have affected the process?
Any advice as to how to increase the visible screen area?
davidmohammed
July 24th, 2010, 05:22 PM
difficult to say without knowing what your graphics card is....
in a terminal type
lspci | grep VGA
also
copy and paste the contents of the file (if it exists) here
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
finally in a terminal run
xrandr
and copy and paste the contents here.
Richard3
July 25th, 2010, 08:50 AM
Took me a little while to work out your instruction and carry them out as I am new to this
Result as follows doesn't look encouraging
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XPAi1 (rev 82
gedit/etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 800 x 600, maximum 800 x 600
default connected 800x600+0+0 0mm x 0mm
800x600 60.0* 56.0
640x480 60.0
400x300 60.0 56.0
320x240 60.0
Krabby.Linux
July 25th, 2010, 10:07 AM
Do you have a monitor? Connect it if you have one and take a look on the display. Is it the same there?
Richard3
July 25th, 2010, 11:22 AM
It displays full screen on the monitor
Richard3
July 25th, 2010, 11:25 AM
Yes I do have a separate monitor I have connected it and it displays full screen
overdrank
July 25th, 2010, 12:23 PM
Hi and welcome, You may look here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=830643&highlight=Trident) for some help.
Richard3
July 25th, 2010, 05:27 PM
Hi very useful thanks and I have learned a lot.
I have followed through on the links run the checker again and got the following:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [ OK ]
Checking for non power of two support... [ OK ]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig... [ OK ]
Checking for hardware/setup problems... [FAIL]
There has been (at least) one error detected with your setup:
Error: Software Rasterizer in use
I could do with a prompt as to how to repond
Richard3
July 26th, 2010, 07:38 PM
Hi
This is the steer I got from the Compiz Forum after following their guidance and then run the Compiz checker a couple of times
"Compiz will not work with that particular GPU. As for your screen resolution problems, you should probably ask on the Ubuntu forums".
I now know that Compiz is not a solution.
Is there any solution for supporting a rasterizer or rendering function in Ubuntu?
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