Fwd: Help for Screen resolution

[Ashfaq Shaikh]

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From: Ashfaq Shaikh <ashfaq.s76 at gmail.com>
Date: Oct 7, 2007 8:38 PM
Subject: Help for Screen resolution
To: ubuntu-in-request at lists.ubuntu.com
Cc: 797714.16207.qm at web94310.mail.in2.yahoo.com

Dear, when I bought the machine it came with vista ultimat, worked fine no
problem at all. With Machine I had gone for Viewsonic VG1930wm a wide screen
multimedia monitor, that too worked fine. Windows did not had any problems
as far as resolution is concerned.

Last year I had a slow machine 700 duran, and I had tried Ubuntu 6.10 but
failed as neither I had Broadband, nor the pc too match it. Now as I was
equipped with hardware, I decided for ubuntu 7.04 64bit. As now my Machine
is AMD 64 4400, with I GB Ram, and 250 GB hard disk. One partition of 60 GB
I had specifically devoted to Ubuntu.

Now, installation was fine no problem even softwares got updated, speed and
feel was just admirable, but the resolution looked fade, on checking found
it was max, 1024x768 in the list of three. Checked into forums and tried to
download nvidia driver did it, but no difference. Read second edition E
Book, tried to reconfigure xorg, from recovery at boot, did all the steps as
instructed but no change. Although I did choose the required resolution of
1440x900 in xorg config, but after rebooting no change is seen, accept one!
now if I enable the nvidia restricted driver the pc reboots in Ubuntu but
the desktop freezes. Nothing works after clicking, and I had to go through
reconfiguration again but the problem with resolution is not resoved.

Yes I can boot windows, which comes as a last option in the grub, and
windows again dont have any resolution problems, even now. I have been told
that it could be done, but I am not familiar with the Dos format of linux,
or windows, so would request all the commands to get it done.

Please do he needful,
Ashfaq
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