John F. Eldredge wrote: > I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop a couple of days ago. Looking at > the list of installed packages, it appears to have installed almost > every X server under the sun, including the > xserver-xorg-video-openchrome package, which looks like it should be the > right one for my hardware. However, it identifies my video card only as > "unknown", and won't let me change it to anything else using the Display > GUI tool. As a result, it won't let me use a video mode higher than > 800x600. Unfortunately, quite a few Ubuntu programs won't run properly > in 800x600 mode, as they bring up a window larger than that size, > meaning that the bottom of the window is off-screen. Below is the > output of the lspci command. Can anyone tell me how to fix my video > mode? As I recall from 9.04, you can't go in and edit the xorg.conf > file, as was the practice on older distributions. On 9.04 (and probably > on 9.10), the config file only allowed you to tweak mouse and keyboard > settings, not video settings.
A lot of settings are auto detected in newer Xorg but you can still add additional settings if you want to override the autodetected settings. http://samiux.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/howto-via-s3-unichrome-pro-problems-fixed-on-ubuntu-9-04/ has some info on using a unichrome card on 9.04 - I imagine it might work for 9.10 as well. I don't have any machines with a unichrome video card so I can't test this myself. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
