Resolution issues

rbil rbil at shaw.ca
Tue Dec 19 16:37:20 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-19-12 at 09:52 -0500, Master Cougar wrote:
> Hello,
>   Perhaps you recall that I once asked about why when I reinstalled
> Ubuntu that the resolution of the screen had changed dramatically and
> I could not figure it out. Well, I finally figured out what the
> difference is. When I reinsalled Ubuntu I had not loaded, in Windows,
> the ATI drivers before I installed Ubuntu. Well, today I reformatted
> the hard drive, installed Windows XP, installed the drivers for sound,
> network and video. Then I installed Ubuntu... I got back the proper
> resolution.  
> 
>   Lesson learned, always load up the proper drivers...duh. 
> -- 
> Marc de Puma

What drivers you use in Windows shouldn't have anything to do with your
resolution in Ubuntu.

Cheers,
René







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