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lozparry
October 1st, 2008, 11:07 PM
Hi,

I have just installed 8.04 on a new build PC and am unable to adjust the screen resolution? At present it is set to 800x600 and the only option I have is to make it 640x840? I have fitted my old PC's hdd into this new one which also has 8.04 on and that allowed me to fix the resolution?

Any suggestions?
I have a xfx geforce 9400 gt 512mb pci-e 2.0 graphics card fitted and i am fairly new to linux:(
vluhd
October 2nd, 2008, 12:52 AM
my reccomendation (not that im qualified or anything) is to install all available updates, and enable the 3rd party drivers for your nvidia card.

that might help.
Forbees
October 2nd, 2008, 12:56 AM
my reccomendation (not that im qualified or anything) is to install all available updates, and enable the 3rd party drivers for your nvidia card.

that might help.

that fixed it for me

should work for you too
lozparry
October 2nd, 2008, 10:22 PM
Cheers but I have updated all and I do not have hardware drivers available!
upchucky
October 2nd, 2008, 11:47 PM
check this, it is the only proper way to set up a nvidia card. other methods work but not completely, they are work-arounds to get the card doing something. the link here will undo failed attempts and set the card right.


http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5086971&postcount=6