I ran Ubuntu's update procedure and most of my screen problems went away. Actually, all I know/knew about have. You're right the size wouldn't go over 800x600 until after the update. Oh, an internal NVidia graphics device.
On 05/24/2010 09:34 AM, Neil Baylis wrote: > There's also Matrox. > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Mark Wendt<mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil> wrote: > > >> >> On 05/23/2010 06:18 PM, Dave wrote: >> >>> From what I have gathered 10.4 suffers from similar video problems >>> >> that >> >>> 9.10 did. One issue is that 9.10 and apparently also 10.4 oftentimes >>> can't access the video screen correctly to determine the screens >>> capabilities. >>> >>> If you use the Vesa driver and you know your screen resolution, you can >>> force the Vesa driver to set the video which apparently gets rid of some >>> of the screen flickering issues etc. >>> >>> Another user, and then I found that the D510 intel board with the >>> onboard intel GMA3150 video had an issue with 9.10 so I wrote up a work >>> around for the D510 board. If you are going to use the Vesa driver >>> perhaps this would be some help. >>> >>> Go to this page... >>> >>> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?EMC_Ubuntu91 >>> >>> And scroll down to the bottom where it says: "*Note Relating to "cannot >>> load the i810 module" error when first booting compiled Kernel:*" >>> >>> The "xorg.conf.failsafe" file is setup to use the Vesa driver.. so >>> this procedure just sets things up so the vesa driver is used and then >>> describes how to set the config file so it is optimal for the monitor >>> you have connected. >>> >>> This doesn't fix any Linux issue, it is really a work around. >>> >>> Dave >>> >> Ah, figures. I mentioned to Gene in the previous email that I didn't >> have any problems in 8.04 (didn't try the 9.10 version so I didn't >> notice the video problems there). Other than ATI and NVidia, are there >> other decent video cards, or have they pretty much taken over the field? >> >> Mark >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> >> > > > -- Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Wilson Nicholas, 1803 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
