Charles, just a suggestion; On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 23:46 -0400, Charles MacDonald wrote: > I have just bought a new generic computer using a Gigabyte Intel core > duo board. > > Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L Motherboard > > Since Kubuntu was released last week, I decided to use that for my > initial setup > > But I have been getting a few glitches.. > > 1) Screensize. The unit is connected to my old 21 inch monitor which > suggests I use 1600 X 1200 as resolution. maximum that the System > settings Display applet will do is 1360X768 which gives a picture that > is stretched vertically, worse, the system starts up at 1152 X 864, and > jumps to the higher resolution as soon as I open the system settings. > > The video is on board the Motherboard > I had much the same problem in Fedora with the Xorg "nv" (nvidia) driver. All my problems went away when I installed the rpmfushion nvidia driver. -- Regards Bill Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.3 Evo.2.24.5, Emacs 22.3.1