[SLL] Ubuntu/Matrox resolution problem

[Abha Harting]

I installed the Matrox modules, and that fixed but only temporarily. I got
it to go to a higher one, but now it has boomeranged back to the lower
resolution.

I set up a lot of users on this one machine as it is donated to a group home
for disabled adults. The display is 800X600 on all the logins.

I have spent hours on it, so I am tired of screwing around with it. Still,
thank you all for the input.

Abha


On 12/19/07, Mr.Scrooge <maximilian_bianco at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I have seen this problem before and in my case , i had
> to reconfigure the video setup. I forget what i did
> exactly, i don't use ubuntu anymore. Search the ubuntu
> forums for reconfiguring the xserver. I printed the
> instructions out but its been months, if i can find
> them i will shoot you an email.
> --- Abha Harting <abhaha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I just installed Gutsy on an old 600Emhz PIII with
> > 384 mgs of ram. I had had
> > an Nvidia AGP card in there, but it was freezing up
> > and locking the screen
> > all the time. The only way to get out of it was to
> > turn the power off. I
> > read on one of the Ubuntu forums that for some
> > machines there is a problem
> > with the Nvidia driver and a number of web browsers
> > (esp FireFox) that
> > causes the freezing. It was even freezing during the
> > install--that got old.
> >
> > I decided I just didn't want to keep having to deal
> > with this, so I went
> > down to REPC and got a Matrox PCI video card. The
> > goofy thing is that when
> > using the live CD and during the install, the
> > resolution was a lot higher,
> > and I could set it to my preferred level of
> > 1024X768.* It was working just
> > fine.* BUT, now that it is installed and rebooted,
> > the only options
> > available are 800X600 and 640X480. This just sucks.
> >
> > So, what is up with that? There must be a way to fix
> > it since it was working
> > better on the live CD. Any help/suggestions
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Abha
> >
>
>
>
>
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