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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] tutorial on Kubuntu 9.04? Funny problems. Gigabyte Built in video

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] tutorial on Kubuntu 9.04? Funny problems. Gigabyte Built in video
  • From: William Case <billlinux [ at ] rogers [ dot ] com>
  • Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 11:22:49 -0400
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