Introducing myself to the list, and a first question

[Dave Marple]

Hey,
Getting xorg to work can sometimes be a huge headache.  The good news is
that there is a GUI configuration in the works...the bad news is it isn't
here yet.  Ubuntu should have no problem supporting your monitor, something
tells me that ubuntu is probably supplying the wrong refresh rate.  Try
putting in 1280x1084_60 which should force a 60hz refresh rate.  Otherwise
copypaste me your xorg.conf and we'll try to get it sorted out.

Best of luck.
Elpram

On 8/19/07, Les Wright <leslie.wright at alumni.uwo.ca> wrote:
>
> Greetings Canadian Ubuntu users!
>
> I recently got a new iMac with lots of memory and have effortlessly
> installed Feisty in a virtual machine under VMware Fusion. It looks and
> runs beautifully there, and since I splurged on the extra 2GB of memory
> (I got a good price through the York U computer store), I can run Ubuntu
> alongside XP and the native Mac OS easily. It only starts breathing hard
> if if doing any disk intensive work that keeps the hard drive busy. I am
> a very happy guy. I haven't been so happy with a computer since first
> fooling around with the TRS-80 as a teen.
>
> My installation of Ubuntu to my old PC didn't go as smoothly. It works
> well enough, and I am pleased my Netgear wireless card was recognized
> out of the box and I could download needed updates and desired packages.
> But the monitor is another story.
>
> I have 19" Samsung Syncmaster 192N--an older monitor, but it works fine
> and should achieve a maximum resolution of 1280x1024 but I haven't been
> able to get above 1024x768 with the built in nv driver. The card is one
> in NVidia GeForce4 MX series, don't know which one. I have gotten the
> legacy driver that supports this card from the NVidia site. My first
> install attempt led to me losing video and the monitor displaying a
> little box saying "video mode not supported". The first couple of times
> I did a complete reinstall of Ubuntu until I realized that Ctrl-Alt-F1
> or Ctrl-Alt-F2 led me to the shell. The first couple of times I let the
> nividia installer set up my xorg.conf file for me, but after a couple of
> reinstalls I thought the wiser of that and Chose to try to make
> adjustments manually. So I listed "nvidia" as the driver and removed
> "nv" and couple of other options as specified in the Readme. The bottom
> line is that if "nvidia" is in that line in lieu of "nv", I lose video
> and have to go into the shell sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf to fix what I
> have changed to get video back again. I have tried added "1280x1084" to
> the resolution options list, but it doesn't show up in the drop down
> menu in the Screen Resolution options.
>
> The good thing is that my card reader on the old PC is recognized, so I
> can easily back up my home directory and do a completely fresh
> reisnstall of Ubuntu if that is what it takes. It is not crucial that I
> get this old box to work, since my Mac version works so well, but it is
> the pricinple of the thing. If there is a way to get the best resolution
> out of this Samsung monitor and NVidia card, I would like to know how. I
> believe others have made this work.
>
> Many thanks
> Les
> Toronto
>
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