[wellylug] Dealing with low resolution in Ubuntu

[Rob Collins]

John Durham wrote:
> Rob Collins wrote:
>   
>> John Durham wrote:
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>>> Rob Collins wrote:
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>>>> John Durham wrote:
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>>>>> 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:
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>>> I got this far without problems then here...
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>>>> ./compiz-check
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>>>>         
>>> 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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>> 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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> 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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