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John Durham wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap="">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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogage.de/files/4359/download">http://blogage.de/files/4359/download</a> -O compiz-check
then:
chmod +x compiz-check
then:
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<pre wrap="">I got this far without problems then here...
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<pre wrap="">./compiz-check
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<pre wrap="">It said "Permission denied" (so close)...
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<pre wrap="">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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<pre wrap="">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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<pre wrap=""><!---->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??
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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.<br>
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