GUI working decently - - - But - - -

[yulester]

After reinstalling the 32 and 64 bit versions of 7.10 a few times, I finally have a somewhat decent desktop, but it should be a bit better.

Here is where I'm at. Installed 64 bit on a Compaq Presario F700 widescreen laptop in safe graphics mode (only way it would install)

Downloaded the nvidia-glx-new driver as indicated by the 'Restricted Drivers' systems settings, and ran the "sudo nvidia-glx-config enable" command as indicated in Adept Manager.

Everything appears to be working pretty good. Monitor and Display in Systems Settings has a max resolution of 800 x 600 at 50HZ which isn't optimal for a 15" widescreen display. Hardware in the same screen shows the graphics card as NV and the Driver as nvidia. I am using an OpenGL Euphoria screen saver as a way to see how well the graphics are doing and it looks good.

This same notebook under Vista runs a screen resolution of 1200 x 800 at 60HZ per the NVIDIA setting application in within Vista.

So my question would be - - - How do I get to the 1200 x 800 screen resolution in Kubuntu. I'm not planning on keeping Vista around any longer than I have too.

[cantab]

Re: GUI working decently - - - But - - -

In monitor and display, activate Administrator Mode. Then in the hardware tab, click 'Configure' where it appears next to monitor #1. You can then either hunt down your make and model (might be troublesome with a laptop), or try to 'Detect Monitor', or just scroll right to the top of the list and choose Generic > LCD Panel 1200x800. Then click OK/Apply to everything. Then log out, restart the X-server (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace), and it should be as you want.

If that still doesn't work post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf here.