Help with resolution settings

[Liam Proven]

On 8 September 2010 04:19, Vic Main <vmain at shaw.ca> wrote:

>     I'm now using 10.04. this monitor resolution thing has been the
> main stumbling block in using Ubuntu more.
> With the version I just tried to update and trashed, the generic
> driver gave me a maximum of 600x800.
> The generic driver in 10.04 now gives me 1024x768, a huge step up.
> The NVIDIA driver "recommended" that I tried is called
> "NVIDIA ACCELERATED GRAPHICS DRIVER (VERSION 96)"  I can tweak all
> sorts of settings, but the video resolution
> choice that driver gives me is 320x240, or 640x480. I'm going to go
> and delve into the drivers available again
>
> As an explanation of what I have re: the question I asked about
> partitioning recomendations.
> An HP Pavillion with an AMD Athalon processor and 512MB memory 2 ide
> drives (1-150GB, the other 160GB)
> I've partitioned  the 160 so that Ubuntu is running off of it, 1
> 500GB SATA and 1 750GB SATA in a Thermltake USB dual SATA drive interface.
> I also have a HP MediaSmart server running Windows Home server with 2
> TB in it. It backs up laptops and the main drive on the Pavillion
> with ntfs partitions on them.
>
> Thanks again to all for the suggestions and help!!

You might want to register with this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/x-kit/+bug/240916

Add in the config files & info they request on that page.

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