On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:05 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I got this comment from another list (Cinepaint): > > > > > > After the CinePaint problems I found > several other > > > difficulties that > > > would not resolve on my system and I have > now > > > abandoned this latest > > > Ubuntu release. ... much more comfortable! > > > > > > Has anyone else had any problems? I'm thinking of > upgrading > > > several machines. > > > > NVIDIA issues are a nightmare. It took me two days of > groveling to get > > my two monitors detected, idid read and used, and twinhead > on a > > Viewsonic 1680x1050 with a phillips 1280x1024. (Gutsy was > working, and I > > saved xorg.conf) > > > > > Assuming you're using the proprietary nVidia drivers, are you > using > nvidia-settings to detect the two monitors? I got mine working > pretty much > straight away using that package.
Sheer luxuary! When we were young ... the bluddy resolution (640x480) was too low to let you get to the [apply] button on nvidia-settings, which does not support any geometry settings. So nvidia-settings and counting and <tabs> and return were tried until a fair slice of my life had burned off. Eventually the solution started with Option "UseEdidFreqs" "false" from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FixVideoResolutionHowto James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
