On 8 May 2010 00:51, Andrew Crosby <electrogeek(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for your reply, its just vga (its a crt monitor) and seams to detect correctly sometimes (i think this is where the problem may be). read the log file, it seams to probe and fail a bunch of settings (probably incorrectly) it also thinks it has 1mb of dedicated memory, which seam a tad odd to be fair.... but it would appear to be fixed. ideas where to look? would you like to see part of the log (its a tad larger then i would want to poke in an email)
It's a bit embarrassing, forgetting about CRT monitors! Can you post the log file up online somewhere and I'll take a look, however I would tend to be looking at the video memory allocated - 1MB is not a lot if you want nice large resolutions. Is the card onboard or an expansion card? If it's onboard I've had good success with hard coding the memory amount required directly into the Xorg.conf (I've not used Ubuntu for a while, so am not sure if Ubuntu has a habit of overwriting that file.) Cheers!