richard rjsad wrote:
i need some help and advice please
just purchased a new 22 monitor, got problems with graphic drivers
running ubuntu
my graphic card is a radeon 9800, i have d/loaded driver for windows
so i can run at 1680 1050 this workes fine
when i i d/loaded the linux driver , when running ubuntu tried to run
and install got this response
could not open file gedit has not been able to detect the character
coding,please check that you are not trying to open binary file.select
a character coding from the menu and try again.
character coding current locale (uft-8)
how do i get this to work
I'm not sure what you're opening with gedit but it sounds like a binary
file, however in any case none of this should be needed. I'm pretty sure
that the stock drivers (or at least the drivers you can download through
Ubuntu) should get you where you need to be.
Which Ubuntu version are you using? What's your monitor?
(Manufacturer/model)
For some reason support for 1680x1050 is a bit messy; I had to edit my
xorg.conf file directly to add support for it.
I've sent a copy of this home to remind me to check the changes I made,
which I'll forward here when I have them (but that could be a couple of
days).
Do you have a driver CD with the monitor (not the graphics card)? If you
do there should be a .inf file on it for the monitor, and I think there
are websites that will convert them to xorg.conf entries.
Give us a little more to go on, hopefully we'll get somewhere. I'd
advise against experimenting too much with the graphics if you're not
sure what you're doing, especially if you're not comfortable at the
commandline (which is where you'll end up when you break the graphics
config!)
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