Re: Ubuntu 8.04 Problem With Limited Screen Resolution
I agree with AstalaVista. I had similar problems with my screen resolution, but installing the nvidia-settings package solved everything about that for me. Just do the following on terminal:
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sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings
Once that's done, do:
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sudo nvidia-settings
Go to "X Server Display Configuration", select your resolution of choice, click on "Apply", and then click on "Save to X Configuration File". You're all set!
So, you may ask "why edit nvidia-settings with root priviledges when you can do it as a regular user"? That's because you want to be able to save your settings to your xorg.conf file.
You can't do that as a regular user. What will happen is your resolution will just reset to Ubuntu's defaults (meaning before you installed and configured your screen res using nvidia-settings) whenever you log out and in or restart your computer.
Editing your settings with root priviledges (using the above code) allows you to permanently save your settings to the xorg.conf file and thus keep the resolution of your choice until you choose to change it again.
Hope that helps.
Edit:
BTW: After installing nvidia-settings and before adjusting anything, go to System > Hardware Drivers and make sure the Nvidia Accelerated Graphics Driver is enabled. Once you've done that, then go do the
Code:
sudo nvidia-settings
Thing. Otherwise you'll just get an error message when you try to adjust the settings.
Last edited by shinkaide; April 28th, 2008 at 09:44 AM.
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