thadacto
November 30th, 2008, 10:43 PM
I have upgraded from a pre 7.10 version to 7.10 and subsequently to 8.04.
When I started the computer with 8.04 my screen resolution was 600x400.
I spent some 30 hours checking things out in many forums and have now got 800x600 (although I would like 1024x768 (I think that's the size). However, in all my installing and removing using the packet manager, I now find that
1. I am still not using a nVidia driver (it's marked "disabled").
2. I have dozens of nVidia files and directories in the system, all of which must be doing nothing. Part of the problem was that the packet manager couldn't find the files - I think they weren't in the correct place.
The main problem file seems to have been nVidia-glx which should have been in the "lib" directory but wasn't so it returned an error.
I started to make a list of them all and after two pages I gave up making the list, there were so many.
Is there some way to remove these, without destroying the system?
Further more, how do I get my resolurion to 1024x768. The system keeps changing my monitor to a Plug n play model even though I set it to a Samsung 794.
Any help would be much appreciated.
When I started the computer with 8.04 my screen resolution was 600x400.
I spent some 30 hours checking things out in many forums and have now got 800x600 (although I would like 1024x768 (I think that's the size). However, in all my installing and removing using the packet manager, I now find that
1. I am still not using a nVidia driver (it's marked "disabled").
2. I have dozens of nVidia files and directories in the system, all of which must be doing nothing. Part of the problem was that the packet manager couldn't find the files - I think they weren't in the correct place.
The main problem file seems to have been nVidia-glx which should have been in the "lib" directory but wasn't so it returned an error.
I started to make a list of them all and after two pages I gave up making the list, there were so many.
Is there some way to remove these, without destroying the system?
Further more, how do I get my resolurion to 1024x768. The system keeps changing my monitor to a Plug n play model even though I set it to a Samsung 794.
Any help would be much appreciated.