This used to be fine until I tried to get fancy and get the proprietary hardware driver running and then all of a sudden it switched to 640 x 480. I have an 256M NVidia GEForce 8400 GS video card and System settings says it is using the VESA driver. Can someone walk me thru this? The native resolution of my 17" widescreen is 1440 x 900.
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Re: Video Can't go above 640 x 480
i assume you want to use the nvidia (proprietary) driver.
the one with support for the gl stuff...
the install package is nvidia-glx-new.
yeah?
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Re: Video Can't go above 640 x 480
In a Konsole enter:DO NOT add the option "-phigh" as some might suggest. That is quite possibly what is getting you in trouble. "-phigh" means "accept standard options that may not apply to your system".Code:sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Answer the questions as best you can. In general, the defaults are sensible, but be sure to choose your video card and monitor capabilities carefully.Comment
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Re: Video Can't go above 640 x 480
I'm really in trouble now. Before I got these two replies to my post, I found a post where someone suggested installing Envy. I installed it and now I can't even get through boot. Before my only problem was everything was in 640 x 480. It gets to the part where it says, "running local scripts" and kept getting hung up there. So I booted into Recovery mode and selected "repair broken packages". It reloaded a bunch of packages, and now Grub gives me option of running xxxx.19, xxxx.19 recovery, xxx.16, and xxxx.16 recovery mode. But with all of them I still can't get past "running local scripts".
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Re: Video Can't go above 640 x 480
we can try and get you out of troubles.
i.e. try and debug your problem and find a solution.
but i guess the fastest way to get you out of this is for you to reinstall...
with your nvidia graphics card, you then have a choice as to what driver to use.
a) the nv driver: the open source driver (works well, no adv features, though)
b) the nvidia driver: the proprietary one (open gl, 3d acceleration, ...).
the restricted drivers manager should help you install the nvidia driver.
in case you wanted that one.
we can help with fine tuning afterwards.
in case you weren't satisfied with the defaults.
cheers
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Re: Video Can't go above 640 x 480
You have to do a re-install.I had to change my Graphics-card....from an ATI...to a nVidia one. The ATI does not work all thatwell, under Linux.
With a very good reason.
ATI-based graphics-cards are NOT supported, with Linux.
All you get to use with them...are ǵeneric drivers´, in most cases.
nVidia-based graphics-card, luckily, are well supported. (Check out the Linux On-line web-site......under Hardware, for the list of Companies who do ´śupport' Linux.)
Fortunately, I had only the Kubuntu OS installed, so, there was little chance of me losing anything vital.
Re-installing the OS may/will give you a few nervous moments...upon booting-up again.
You may find that you will have to repeat, repeat the Log-in process.....until it does log you in.
Thatś what I had to do, with mine......when I changed the graphics-cards over.
Kubuntu had set the Screen Resolution @ 640 X 480, would not budge from there (did recognize the new graphics-card, though), causing me to to do a re-install.
Did the re-install work?
Yes.
It set the Screen Resolution, straight-off, to that of my monitor...which is a 22" Wide-screen LCD.
I couldn´t be happier.
The only things I haven´t figured out, yet, is how to ´ḿount´ my DVD player, and DVD ´burner´.
Both are Lite-ons,
And, I need the right Video/Audio Codecs....for the Player.
Can anyone help me, there?
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Re: Video Can't go above 640 x 480
you probably want to do 2 things:Originally posted by cookie77
a) enable multiverse in your repositories and install kubuntu-restricted-extras
b) add the medibuntu repository (see here)
and install:
1) non-free-codecs
2) libdvdcss2
that should be it for this issue.
this is funny.Originally posted by cookie77
you actually shouldn't need to do anything special here.
everything should work out of the box.
but let's see the basics...
could you please start a konsole and post the result of the following commands:
this should tell us what's the actual device file for your cd reader/writerCode:ls -l /dev/cd*
this should tell us what's the actual device file for your dvd reader/writerCode:ls -l /dev/dvd*
this is the system's file systems table file.Code:cat /etc/fstab
we should find the entries that map your devices in there.
let's see...
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