What screen resolutions are available to switch to? Perhaps the driver for your video card isn't properly installed or working?
You could try going to Settings > Software & Updates > Additional Drivers and checking if there's a driver for your video card that's not currently being used. On 15 October 2016 at 17:13, Stephen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > On 2016-10-14 08:23 AM, Tim Tisdall via talk wrote: >> >> On the off chance anyone else is using Ubuntu 16.04 ... >> >> This morning I found my computer barely usable because of a kernel >> update yesterday. My screen resolution was reduced to the minimum, >> mouse and track pad didn't work, and no wifi. After some searching >> online, I found that the issue was the update failed to install the >> "extra" package. >> >> You can check if this is your problem by running ` dpkg --list >> "*4.4.0-43*" ` and seeing if you're missing the "linux-image-extra" >> package. If so, then you can run "sudo apt-get install >> linux-image-extra-4.4.0-43-generic" to fix it. > > > I have the same problem after the update. :( > > Just screen resolution, though. Mouse fine. > > I do have the package installed :( :( > > I tried upgrading to 16.10. No joy :( :( :( :( > > -- > Stephen > --- > Talk Mailing List > talk@gtalug.org > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk