Ubuntu 9.10 resolution problems.

malef!c

malef!c

malef!c

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Evening all.

I have been given a Dell Inspiron 1010 netbook thing and thought I would put Ubuntu on it.

The install went smoothly from USB and after a bit of Googling (I am not experienced in Linux!) I finally got the wireless working (yey me ;))

Now I am banging my head against the wall and can't find anything reliable showing me how I can get the resolution to change.

At the moment its stuck at 800x576 (I think thats right) on an unknown monitor.

Any ideas what I should be doing to get the resolution to change - its huge at the mo!

Many thanks!
M.
 
Its a Mini 10 - I just want to get it above the default resolution of 'huge' :)

I know this is a bit of a learning curve for me, but I will be calling in here a lot - video card first and then I think I may be back for webcam questions!!

Thanks
 
Hmm, can you confirm that? Other people have had this problem and it seems (don't quote me on this) that a possible fix is adding the bold part below to your xorg.conf file:

Code: 
Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        [B]Option          "UseFBDev"              "true"[/B]

If you don't know how to edit it then go into Terminal and type:

Code: 
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Then hit enter.
 
Magik5 - thanks for that, was just coming back to point out to other Dell users that it is explained here as well:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo

Had a read of your link and its the same - not sure why I didn't get an email saying you had updated the thread, would have saved me another day of looking!

I now have the netbook remix of Ubuntu installed with Wifi, webcam and a decent resolution.
 
Glad it helped, coincidentally I had UBR for about a week before I switched to mint 8 - I just couldnt get used to it.

Currently trying out the fluxbox release of mint, i like that its lightweight but its a little fiddly to begin with, though its growing on me.

Next week ill probably have another distro on it all together... lol
 
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