[wellylug] Dealing with low resolution in Ubuntu

John Durham john.modec at xtra.co.nz
Tue Jun 24 09:56:49 NZST 2008


Rob Collins wrote:
> John Durham wrote:
>> Thanks for all the help getting Ubuntu updates yesterday. By late 
>> evening it was installed and looking pretty good. There was only one 
>> small problem.
>>
>> Screen resolution was low, which meant playing the games on it showed 
>> only part of the game board. The rest was below the bottom of screen. 
>> I tried swapping out the old VGA card for some others (older PCI types 
>> from stock). One it didn't like and wanted to re-install. The other 
>> was accepted, but with no improvement.
>>
>> Is it going to be necessary to re-install for this, or will it accept 
>> a card with more memory? There is a basic AGP slot on the motherboard.
>>   
> I suspect ubuntu has just chosen the generic versa graphics setup.
> Do you know what graphics card you've got?  If not at terminal do:
> wget http://blogage.de/files/4359/download -O compiz-check
> then:
> chmod +x compiz-check
> then:
I got this far without problems then here...
> ./compiz-check
It said "Permission denied" (so close)...
> This will return (amongst others) what graphics chip you are running.  
> You will then know what graphics software modules to install or use.  If 
> you need a hand with this email again.
> 
> Rob

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