Can't get a good resolution with nVidia card.

[Chris Thomas]

Install the nvidia-settings program and see if you can adjust your
resolution using it.

-Chris

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Chris Andrew <cjhandrew at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, all.
>
> I've installed Xubuntu 8.10.  (Unfortunately) I have an nVidia
> on-board graphics card.  After my installation, i was prompted to
> install an nVidia proprietary driver, which I did.  I then did a
> reboot, as asked to.  When my Xfce session started, my resolution was
> so low, that I couldn't do anything on-screen.  I removed all the
> nVidia rubbish, and now have a maximum resolution of 800x640.
>
> When I tried to change the display setting using Settings > Display,
> the best resolution was 840.  When I do dpkg-reconfigure xorg-xserver,
> I don't get any prompts for resolution.  Can anyone tell me how to get
> a slightly higher resolution?  I would be happy with 1024xsomething.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Chris.
>
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>
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