[wellylug] Dealing with low resolution in Ubuntu
Rob Collins
robcollins55 at aim.com
Tue Jun 24 10:47:34 NZST 2008
John Durham wrote:
> Rob Collins wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
> That was better. The first part produced no errors. When it came to sudo
> ./compiz-check
> however, it replied "Do not run this script as root, because it might
> distort its outcome. Aborting.
>
> Clearly I need to work from somewhere else??
>
>
Just open terminal and run ./compiz-check without the sudo. Sudo puts
you into super user mode with root privileges that is not suitable for
some tasks.
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