Thanks.
What I did - and which worked - was this: with synaptic I installed envyNG,
then run it, so changed the screen resolution in the "screen resoltion!" menu,
(where it had appeared new options),
then restarted the machine. That worked excellently!
Kjetil
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di@zianet.com> wrote:
Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
> You are right, I have the nVidia card. But how do I
> "enable the visual effects"?
>
* *You need to download new software for the kernel and on your
computer. Use the Sympatic Package manager and in the non-ubuntu section
d/l the one for nVidia.
Karl
> Kjetil
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Gilles Gravier <gilles@gravier.org> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>> Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hola!
>>>>
>>>> I recently installed ubuntu (8.04) on a brand new excellent laptop.
>>>> But the screen is only recognised in low resolution, 800x600, which is
>>>>
>> way
>>
>>>> to
>>>> bad. From menu Preferences > Screen resolution it is NOT offered any
>>>>
>> higher
>>
>>>> resolution, such
>>>> as 1024x768, which I am sure is possible. What to do? I'm sure it should
>>>>
>> be
>>
>>>> easy!
>>>>
>>>> Kjetil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> * * I expect you have a nVidia video device. You can tell this by
>>> writing in a terminal $ lspci | video and if you do have nVidia you need
>>> to get the better driver software either from Ubuntu or the nVidia web
>>>
>> page.
>>
>> If you have an nvidia, just enabling the visual effects will trigger the
>> download, install and activation of the proprietary (i.e. high
>> performance, fancy admin interface) nvidia driver. Then you can launch
>> the Nvidia Settings from the Applications System tab (or something
>> close, depending on your GNOME configuration).
>>
>> That lets you configure everything on an nvidia graphics board.
>>
>> Gilles.
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