[wellylug] Dealing with low resolution in Ubuntu

[Rob Collins]

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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