[SLL] Ubuntu/Matrox resolution problem

[Abha Harting]

It turns out that I have another machine that has a Matrox G200 in it, and I
am having the same problem with this one as the other. This machine is a
950mhz Duron with 512 mgs of Ram. I installed and then reinstalled the
Matrox modules using Synaptic but it would pop out and stay in 800X600. Then
I found another program in Synaptic called gvidm and that seems to have
kicked it up to the higher resolution more regularly (not EVERY time but
more often), but then too occasionally the mouse freezes during boot up.
When that happens, I log in and then hit control-alt-delete to reboot it and
move the mouse wildly while it reboots and during the login, and that seems
to work, but it is* hardly* a satisfactory way to go! I would like to sell
some of these older machines with Ubuntu loaded, so I want them to work
right.

This is driving me nuts. Any more ideas?? Thanks.

Abha

On Dec 18, 2007 10:28 PM, 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