Can't get resolution higher than 640x480 after playing Frets on Fire
Karl F. Larsen
klarsen1 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 3 00:51:57 UTC 2009
Ruud Jansen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After a game of Frets on Fire (fullscreen in 640x480), I am not able
> to reset the resolution back to the original resolution. When I go to
> System > Preferences > Screen Resolution, I can only choose 640x480
> and 320x240. Restarting X and rebooting didn't fix the problem.
>
> I am using the nvidia-glx-173 driver, but reconfiguring or
> reinstalling that driver doesn't seem to fix the problem.
>
> When I started using Linux I just changed my xorg.conf for configuring
> the screen resolutions. But since that is rather empty, I have no idea
> where to add extra screen resolutions.
>
> Some help would really be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
You need the non-Ubuntu driver for your kernel. I at this time
forget where this is and it changes. I have it and it gets me the
desired 1280X1094 which I now use.
Karl
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