Hi Charles: 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 > My motherboard is an Intel Gigabyte GA G31M-ES2L. Perhaps the 'E' signifies a different video card, but I don't think so. ~]$ lspci | grep nVidia 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9500 GT (rev a1) My manual claims that the graphics controller is integrated into the motherboard at the north bridge. Intel uses its own graphics controllers sometimes; other times it uses other manufacturer's controllers. On my board it uses the nVidia Corporation GeForce 9500 GT At the risk of insulting you with things you already know or have checked: lsmod will also tell you if you are running the 'nv' driver or not; or look directly in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > 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 > > is there any "video tuning application that I can get an idea of why the > resolution is such strange values. > > OH and probaly related, i Put some icons on the screen, (drag and drop > from the start menu, and today they jumped in about an inch from the > right hand edge. I went to move them back and they jumped in again. > > The ubuntu way of offering only info that is no-technical is great- I am > too old to play alpha geek, but I would like ot know what is up with this. > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux -- Regards Bill Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.3 Evo.2.24.5, Emacs 22.3.1