[wellylug] Dealing with low resolution in Ubuntu
Rob Collins
robcollins55 at aim.com
Tue Jun 24 10:08:52 NZST 2008
John Durham wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
Sorry John, was a bit shorthand before. You have to put sudo infron of
all the script lines I wrote before!
Rob
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