[Cialug] help with ubuntu 11.10

[Ralph Kessel]

My lips to God's ear or at least to yours Mat. It worked! I followed your recommendations to the letter and I am able to once again use my terminal as Ubuntu intended. I still have to figure out the Lexmark problem but one good step at a time.
Thanks ever so much!


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 From: Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org> 
Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2012 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] help with ubuntu 11.10
 
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Ralph Kessel <ralphkessel75 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I need help with two distinct problems with my installation of Ubuntu
> 11.10:
>
>
> 1. It refuses to provide a screen resolution greater than 640 x 480 even
> though I got it to boot in grub with the higher pixel rate. Neither my
> NVIDIA app or the screen  app recognize my Dell E176FP at a higher screen
> resolution.  My windows partition works fine. As you might expect the low
> screen resolution is annoying.
>
>
Hi, sorry, no experience with the lexmark printer so I cannot reply to
that. Regarding the nVidia, here are two thoughts:

1. Did the system prompt you to install a proprietary driver? If you hit
the windows key on your keyboard and start typing "driver" you should see
the proprietary drivers program. Open it. If you are not using a
proprietary driver but one is available, try it out. If you are using one
and there are two available, try the other one. I'm pretty sure that you
need to be connected to the net to successfully enable or change your
drivers in this way.

2. Do you have the nVidia control panel program installed? I'm sorry, I'm
not at a computer that has this available at the moment, but if you have
the nVidia propretiary driver I think there is a way to get to a driver
manager for your video card. It has a lot of knobs and buttons you can play
with, and I'm pretty sure there is an option to probe your monitor.

Every modern monitor (and your E176FP qualifies as modern) has the ability
for the computer to probe the monitor for it's available modes. It can do
this even if the monitor is off (but it can't do it if the monitor is
disconnected!). So unless you plugged the monitor in after the computer was
turned on then I would expect your problem to be driver related.

Another option you have is to try logging out and when you're at the login
screen, hit the gear next to your name and change the session to Unity 2D.
Then login and see if that works. If it does, then you have a problem with
the 3d mode. The good news is, Unity 2D is awesome and actually uses less
power than Unity, so you may just want to stick with it. If you want 3d
rendering then you may at least be able to get things working better from a
nice high-res 2d environment.

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