Hey, so I finally made the switch, mostly cuase windows was just giving me way too many issues, all the time, heck, I got a blue screen the alst time I ran fear, next thing I knew, my hdd was blank O_o.

Anyways, I'm running ubuntu, and well, my res seems to be locked, and it totally sucks. I've read a few guides on editing the xorg config, but that didnt seem to help.

Well start off by installing your Nvidia drivers if you have not already done so. To do so, follow these steps.

Open a terminal and type
Backup your xorg.conf file just in case by typing the following.
Then type this to enable the propietary Nvidia driver.
Now we will make a applications menu link so you can access the Nvidia control panel (Basically the same thing as in windows.)

Type
The file is most likely empty and if not just delete it's contents.

Then put this inside the file.
Save the file.

Log out so you are at the GDM login screen, and press CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, so the X server restarts and the new settings take effect.

This may or may not enable more resolutions for you. If not then lets try the following.

Type
Down near the bottom their is a section called "Screens", it should look somewhat similar to this.

And then somewhere in that section locate a subsection that will look like this.

And then edit the Modes line accordingly puting the resolution in quotes from largest to small, ex. "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600".

This should work but if not I have some other tricks up my sleeves. Good luck.

Well, I fell bad, cuase you type'd all that, And I figured it out, I'm sry EvilClown

Though I will say, once you get stuff working, linux freakin owns!

Quote: Originally Posted by Wafflesomd Well, I fell bad, cuase you type'd all that, And I figured it out, I'm sry EvilClown Though I will say, once you get stuff working, linux freakin owns!

Meh, I tried.

Quote: Originally Posted by Wafflesomd Well, I fell bad, cuase you type'd all that, And I figured it out, I'm sry EvilClown Though I will say, once you get stuff working, linux freakin owns!

That's what I've been telling people... once you put in the effort to learn enough to get everything working, you just can't freaking kill Linux. Welcome to the fold.

Ok slight problem along the same lines: while I love ubuntu and I really love beryl, I don't love the fact that my refresh rate is locked. The only res that uses my moniters supported refresh rate is 1600X1200, which is ok.. but a little hard on my eyes for all my text. Any advice? (as I drop res, my refresh goes up, which is bad.)

The only problem Ive had with this, is the fact that it defaults to 60Hz, which I cant deal with. I believe there may be no way to change this, since everything Ive tried to changed ended up screwing linux up..lol (I could be wrong, and there maybe a way)

you lucky bum! My res defualts at 65hz (1600X1200) and bumps up to 85hz by 1280X1240 or whatever and just goes up by 10hz every drop in resolution. I mean I can deal with it at these settings, but I'd much prefer a lower res.





Wobbly windows FTW!