Cannot change resolution

I have a feeling that you have not installed the drivers for the card, hence you cannot use the higher resolutions. Install the driver from the CD provided and then you will have access to all resolutions.Download the driver from if you donot have the cd.

http://www.nvidia.in/object/winxp_2k_71.89.html

These are legacy drivers for the RIVA TNT 2.

Hi,

Go to System, on the top bar, then Preferences and select Monitors.
On the Monitor Preference screen there will be different resolution settings that you can choose.
If there are any resolution settings higher than 800X600 like 1024X768 etc. select it and apply.

If there is no other settings available go to System then Administration and select Additional driver.
When the Additional drivers screen appears check if it recommends a a driver to be downloaded.
If it does, download the driver and then you will be able to get higher screen resolutions.

If there is no additional driver to download it gets a bit tricky.
You will need to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
The file will look someting like this:


Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Philips 190S"
ModeLine "1280x1024" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-82
VertRefresh 56-76
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Philips 190S"
Device "Default Device"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection

EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection


It will be wise to make a backup of this file if you are going to edit it. (xorg.conf.old)
Inside the file you will see your screen and its resolution. (Preferred mode)
You need to change the resolution, save the file and restart your session.
If all went well your resolution will be set to what you specified, if your display freaks out replace the xorg.conf file with the xorg.conf.old file.

Hope one of these options solves your problem!

Regards

This sounds familiar. What you need to do is download the motherboard INF setup or the motherboard drivers as they are sometimes called. Run that and windows will then be able to identify the hardware. At that point you can run the video driver and it should now install. When it is running you can change the screen resolution to higher as well as the colours to higher.

As a word of caution sometimes the drivers that you download from the manufactuers website won't work for the first install but the ones on the cd will.

your systems graphic may be Nvdia graphic,try to start in recovery mode or command line and install nvdia drivers manually in command line.

config of your video card with other drivers

I have the Ubuntu installed on the machine , It does show NVIDIA driver installed in the list. I had to install the NVIDIA driver because of the UBUNTU installation didn't show the higher resolutions on my computer. I needed to download the NVIDIA driver installtion file from the internet and that made my computer work for better resolutions as my computer hardware supports.

Hi,
I would definitely double check the make and model of the video card and make sure you have the correct driver.

Joe

try resolution change or refresh rate look in system files i know linux is hard the first time unbuntu forums .com helped me a lot a lot of questions answered there just trying to help with some sites i used without typing answers and don't want to confuse you

Hello,

eric, YOur LCD support upto 1440X900. this could be true if you use higher resolution VGA adapter in you PC.

This matter in the Video Adapter.

may this help,

melnavz

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