Things were all roses at first, but now I'm having some very odd problems.
One is screen resolution. I can't even select anything above 1280x1024. I want to run at 1600x1200 @75 Hz. My display (NEC Accusync 120, 21" CRT) can certainly handle it, but I'm not even allowed to select that option. The System Settings->Display applet tells me my screen is set at 1280x1024 with a 50Hz refresh rate. It doesn't know what it's talking about, because the monitor is detecting (and my eyeballs would be bleeding if this weren't true, on a 21" monitor) an 85 Hz refresh rate.
I installed the proprietary NVidia drivers, version 177.80. 3D is working fine in games, but I can't run them at 1600x1200. Attempting to do so makes the game quit, in those games which allow adjusting the screen resolution. The games I've tried so far are all from the default repositories: Warsow, Neverball, and Orbital Eunuchs Sniper. The latter only uses 2D graphics, but should have sound, which it doesn't.
That's the other thing: I get NO sound in any games, or even in non-game apps like Amarok. The only sounds I ever hear are the "you just logged in" and "logging out" music. In Windows, I would probably look for a mis-installed sound driver or something like that, but I have no idea how 8.10 does it, or how it could already be broken, since I just installed it 2 days ago.
Video card is a GeForce 9800 GTX+. Sound hardware is built-in on an Asus P5E3 WS Pro motherboard. Under Windows, it just says "SoundMAX HD digital audio." According to Alsamixer run from the console, I have " HDA Intel, Analog Devices AD1988B."
Well, THAT one was easy - PCM was simply muted under Alsamixer, for some reason. I have full sound now.
Still need help with the video, though!
One is screen resolution. I can't even select anything above 1280x1024. I want to run at 1600x1200 @75 Hz. My display (NEC Accusync 120, 21" CRT) can certainly handle it, but I'm not even allowed to select that option. The System Settings->Display applet tells me my screen is set at 1280x1024 with a 50Hz refresh rate. It doesn't know what it's talking about, because the monitor is detecting (and my eyeballs would be bleeding if this weren't true, on a 21" monitor) an 85 Hz refresh rate.
I installed the proprietary NVidia drivers, version 177.80. 3D is working fine in games, but I can't run them at 1600x1200. Attempting to do so makes the game quit, in those games which allow adjusting the screen resolution. The games I've tried so far are all from the default repositories: Warsow, Neverball, and Orbital Eunuchs Sniper. The latter only uses 2D graphics, but should have sound, which it doesn't.
That's the other thing: I get NO sound in any games, or even in non-game apps like Amarok. The only sounds I ever hear are the "you just logged in" and "logging out" music. In Windows, I would probably look for a mis-installed sound driver or something like that, but I have no idea how 8.10 does it, or how it could already be broken, since I just installed it 2 days ago.
Video card is a GeForce 9800 GTX+. Sound hardware is built-in on an Asus P5E3 WS Pro motherboard. Under Windows, it just says "SoundMAX HD digital audio." According to Alsamixer run from the console, I have " HDA Intel, Analog Devices AD1988B."
Well, THAT one was easy - PCM was simply muted under Alsamixer, for some reason. I have full sound now.
Still need help with the video, though!
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