Ubuntu 9.10 resolution problems.

malef!c · 15 Feb 2010 at 22:11

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.

malef!c · 15 Feb 2010 at 22:43

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

malef!c · 15 Feb 2010 at 23:01

Luckily (I think) its a Intel GMA 950!

malef!c · 17 Feb 2010 at 17:39

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.