On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 05:48:40 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> I started with the GUIs, the one from NVIDIA and the one in the Xfce >> settings manager. Neither had any way to change the resolution; in >> fact, after poking at them for half an hour I decided they were >> useless. >That's interesting. I run xfce4 and when I select Settings -> Display >I see the name of the monitor, resolution, refresh rate, rotation, >reflection, and a couple of other options. > >When I had my Dell Lattitude 2100 at the clinic and connected to a >large monitor I used Settings -> Display to optimize use of that >monitor and again to reset the display to the 10" screen when I >returned home. I'm surprised it did not work for you. Just now I checked again. The Xfce Display utility had changed the resolution it displays from 640x480 to 1920x1080, but there was still no option to change any of the settings. It appears to be just a reporting tool. The NVIDIA display settings utility, however, now displays everything, and there are options to change resolutions, etc. This is as it used to be before the disaster. In retrospect, the reason it showed nothing during the disaster was undoubtedly because there was no driver at that time. The part that still leaves me shaking my head is how this happened. Before leaving for the Clinic I applied all the latest Xubuntu updates (using Update Manager), which included a new kernel. There may have been new NVIDIA driver updates, but I don't recall seeing any. I seldom bother to check the list, except to see if there is a new kernel. If there is a new kernel I know that running the updates will require a reboot, which is why I do so before leaving for the Clinic. That way, when I get to the Clinic the computer will be restarted, and if there are any problems I will be in a safe haven surrounded by help. But in this case the computer booted just fine at the Clinic. And later at the Clinic it was restarted numerous additional times while working on a Virtualbox problem, each time booting perfectly normally. It was only when I got home after the Clinic that the 640x480 problem appeared. I'd love to know why it happened. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
