The Minder
May 11th, 2008, 08:56 AM
Gentlemen,
My system is an Asrock P4vm890 mobo with an nVidia GeForce 7200 GS video card running Ububtu 8.04. On this forum there are way too many posts from people having screen resolution/desktop settings/desktop visual effects problems and I have joined the throng. Until I upgraded to 8.04 I would have said that nothing would take me away from Ubuntu, but today I say that release 8.04 just might do it. I find it totally unacceptable that 8.04 has made it so difficult to set basic things like screen resolution.
Computers are no longer the realm of white coats and clean rooms, they are consumer items and consumers just want the product to work. It is unrealistic to expect a consumer to have to resolve such a basic issue as screen resolution by having to:
open a terminal screen and type in gibberish such as grep | frizbiscuit --rm perp +somethingorother,
cut and paste the result to a forum and try to explain the problem in sufficiently technical jargon such that one of the moderators/responders (who I admire greatly) can provide a reasoned response,
mess around downloading new packages that may or may not solve the problem,
only to have Ubuntu go off and do it's own thing anyway on the next boot.
So here's my problem:
After trying numerous options like:
having the Grub loader fix the x-server settings,
using Envy to load the nVidia drivers,
using the nVidia configuration tool to make the settings changes (this didn't work as it said I wasn't running the right xserver but when I entered the command nVidia suggested, nothing happened), and
setting the screen resolution countless times only to have it revert to 800x600 on the next reboot.
I am now totally fed up. As much as I hate M$, at least M$ allowed me to set video drivers and screen resolutions without difficulty. Why can't Ubuntu do the same thing?
Yes, I have searched this forum for a solution, but all I find is countless others having basically the same issues and sometimes getting those issues resolved, but there's no common solution. What works for one person does not work for the next poor smuck. nVidia seems to be the main source of concern.
My system is currently running in 1280 x 1024 mode but I will bet London to a brick that on the next reboot it will be back to 800 x 600.
If anyone has any suggestions on a 'simple' way of invoking the nVidia drivers, maintaining a stable screen resolution and being able to use the higher end visual effects on the desktop I would be grateful and will Fedex my first born promptly to the saviour.
My system is an Asrock P4vm890 mobo with an nVidia GeForce 7200 GS video card running Ububtu 8.04. On this forum there are way too many posts from people having screen resolution/desktop settings/desktop visual effects problems and I have joined the throng. Until I upgraded to 8.04 I would have said that nothing would take me away from Ubuntu, but today I say that release 8.04 just might do it. I find it totally unacceptable that 8.04 has made it so difficult to set basic things like screen resolution.
Computers are no longer the realm of white coats and clean rooms, they are consumer items and consumers just want the product to work. It is unrealistic to expect a consumer to have to resolve such a basic issue as screen resolution by having to:
open a terminal screen and type in gibberish such as grep | frizbiscuit --rm perp +somethingorother,
cut and paste the result to a forum and try to explain the problem in sufficiently technical jargon such that one of the moderators/responders (who I admire greatly) can provide a reasoned response,
mess around downloading new packages that may or may not solve the problem,
only to have Ubuntu go off and do it's own thing anyway on the next boot.
So here's my problem:
After trying numerous options like:
having the Grub loader fix the x-server settings,
using Envy to load the nVidia drivers,
using the nVidia configuration tool to make the settings changes (this didn't work as it said I wasn't running the right xserver but when I entered the command nVidia suggested, nothing happened), and
setting the screen resolution countless times only to have it revert to 800x600 on the next reboot.
I am now totally fed up. As much as I hate M$, at least M$ allowed me to set video drivers and screen resolutions without difficulty. Why can't Ubuntu do the same thing?
Yes, I have searched this forum for a solution, but all I find is countless others having basically the same issues and sometimes getting those issues resolved, but there's no common solution. What works for one person does not work for the next poor smuck. nVidia seems to be the main source of concern.
My system is currently running in 1280 x 1024 mode but I will bet London to a brick that on the next reboot it will be back to 800 x 600.
If anyone has any suggestions on a 'simple' way of invoking the nVidia drivers, maintaining a stable screen resolution and being able to use the higher end visual effects on the desktop I would be grateful and will Fedex my first born promptly to the saviour.