Have had a similar problem with Gutsy. Go to system>restricted drivers manager and see what driver has been loaded. Ensure the resticted drivers box has been ticked.
If X dosen't start (not uncommon) then do the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.conf thing. the next move is to down load automatix www.getautomatix.com ver 2.0.6 and run the drivers and fonts module in that. quite a long download. That sorted both my desktop and Lappy just my opinion, but I have found it pays to be VERY cautious with the information given in the Ubuntu forums Cheers Chris T On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:46 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: > I have a fresh AMD64 Gutsy install that hasn't gone too smoothly. The > key annoyance that I'm stumped about is the aweful way fonts are > rendered - in certain places only. If I go to System Settings, Monitor > & Display, I have finally managed to get the screen resolution to read > 1440x900 (correct for this LCD monitor), the graphics card is detected > as NVIDIA GeForce 6, driver nv. Earlier I found that I had to download > and install the latest nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.19-pkg2 > in order to get X to start. I'm not certain which driver I am now > using, whether this is the nv driver, or the NVIDIA one (I'm still > fairly confused about drivers in linux). In Appearance -> Fonts I have > anti-aliasing turned on and have tried various settings in there to > improve things without success. > > Fonts in this email composition window appear OK, menus in Thunderbird > are OK, but basically any KDE related fonts (window title bars, K menu, > konqueror, konsole) all look terrible. > > Can anyone suggest where I have gone wrong and what I need to do? > > Cheers, > Roger
