Thanks you so much for your suggestions! I'll try them out and let you know if they work.
Redge On 9/20/06, Abhaha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you are having trouble with the GUI--if it is gone screwy on you--one > way > that may help is if you create a different user. My boyfriend had the GUI > go > bonkers on him in Mandrake and he simply created a new user ID and it > fixed > it. Then he deleted the old user name. If you do that though, make sure to > take all your data off the old user account before you try it. > > I have a number of external USB drives and devices and it was easy to get > the data off of it recently when my home partition was way too full. > > Some people have told me that if settings are made in the GUI, they may > tend > to persist. For that reason many prefer the command line for some > adjustments. > > I also noticed that when I was configuring the screen resolution, it asked > me if I wanted to use the gnome screen tool or the KDE tool. I installed > both Ubuntu and Kubuntu so that I had the option of using the KDE window > manager. I installed UBUNTU first, so when I set up KDE, I used what I > thought was the Gnome tool for consistency. On one install I switched it > for > KDE after installing Kubuntu and I had bad results. I wish I could > remember > the exact name of that, but I installed Ubuntu first and since that was > Gnome, that was the one I chose initially. > > The first time I ran into trouble, I just reinstalled everything since I > had > no data--that fixed it. > > BTW, maybe it would help to install Easy Ubuntu? That tool has drivers in > it > for Nvidia and ATI video cards. > http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/get.html > > > Abha > > On 9/19/06, Redge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have have trouble getting KDE to accept the changes I'm trying to make > > to the screen and driver settings. After I've selected the correct > > versions, if I can click on apply in the first place, it usually does > > nothing, and the settings aren't changed. > > > > -- > > No GUI way to change screen resolution in Kubuntu > > https://launchpad.net/bugs/48777 > > > > -- > No GUI way to change screen resolution in Kubuntu > https://launchpad.net/bugs/48777 > -- Romke van der Meulen Kunstmatige Intelligentie jaar 2 - RuG Student 1536516 "The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish and mankind to himself." - Hindu saying -- No GUI way to change screen resolution in Kubuntu https://launchpad.net/bugs/48777 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
