BYE BYE MAC, hello Ubuntu!!!!

eurotrotter

hey gang
hope yer all well
just installed ubuntu
i have been a mac vconvert for two years now, but with the price of teh macs, i began to question spending mac money on a machine that aint much better than a windows, so iv crosssed over to ubuntu and i really really like it

my only problems at the moment are:

1. printing: cant get the page to 'print to fit page' - i have a samsung ml 2010 printer

2. screen resolution: i went into preferences -> screen resolution but the mac screen resolution is 800: 600 and i need 1280 X 1024 for my screen to perform optimally.


any ideas guys, id really appreciate any help on these two points


thanks very much,
Ed

stereo_steve

Can you give us some more information?

What version of ubuntu and what graphics card do you have?

eurotrotter

stereo_steve wrote: »

Can you give us some more information?

What version of ubuntu and what graphics card do you have?

hi steve

im running Ubuntu 8.10

stereo_steve

thanks and do you know what graphics card/ chip you have? Nvidia, AMD/ intel etc?

If your not sure you can open a terminal ( Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) type lspci and copy and paste the result back here

eurotrotter

stereo_steve wrote: »

thanks and do you know what graphics card/ chip you have? Nvidia, AMD/ intel etc?

If your not sure you can open a terminal ( Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) type lspci and copy and paste the result back here

nice one for that, just attached it there in a doc file

stereo_steve

Ok I can see you have a nvidia card. Can you check that the driver for it has been installed?

System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers

Post back and let us know....

pljudge321

Post and run these in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install envyng-core

and then:

sudo envyng -t


Follow the steps and it should sort everything.

Johnboy1951

eurotrotter wrote: »

nice one for that, just attached it there in a doc file

OMG, a Windows .doc file!!!!!!! Aaaaaaaargh

eurotrotter

hey guys
thanks for all the help so far
but i aint gettin no where i have attached few screenshots there to the post, hopefully they will help
but a weird thing has happened now, there was a 800:600 (i think) resolution available, and now its gone!


any ideas?

i need 1280 x 1024

thanks v much
ED

Webmonkey

Did you install and activate the drivers? That list in the screen shot is ones that can be installed

eurotrotter

Webmonkey wrote: »

Did you install and activate the drivers? That list in the screen shot is ones that can be installed

ya i activated some drivers, but not sure which drivers to activate to be honest
any ideas?

red_ice

eurotrotter wrote: »

hey gang
i began to question spending mac money on a machine that aint much better than a windows

that sentence makes no sense at all.

An Fear Aniar

eurotrotter wrote: »

ya i activated some drivers, but not sure which drivers to activate to be honest
any ideas?

The 173 driver is marked as recommended, so activate that one.

.

eurotrotter

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

The 173 driver is marked as recommended, so activate that one.

.

check out the attached pic, its a pic of my device manager for windows:




maybe its th wrong driver for my graphics card?

would really appreciate some help on this, i really want to get linux workin!

ed

Webmonkey

What's your PC, laptop model? - I used the real nvidia drivers for my Nvidia GeForce GO 7300.

Check out this post: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60274793&postcount=5

Might help.

eurotrotter

Webmonkey wrote: »

What's your PC, laptop model? - I used the real nvidia drivers for my Nvidia GeForce GO 7300.

Check out this post: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60274793&postcount=5

Might help.

i have a dell dimensions 4600 and an nvidia geforce fx 5200

im running ubuntu version 9.04

Webmonkey

eurotrotter wrote: »

i have a dell dimensions 4600 and an nvidia geforce fx 5200

im running ubuntu version 9.04

So you've tried activating the driver but when you restart, it says it not being used.

Try opening up terminal and:

[B]sudo nvidia-xconfig[/B]

and reboot and see if any difference.

eurotrotter

no difference donal

dunno whats goin on.

found this link oin you tube about missing resolutions:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IGfR8KzhGA

but i dont have that menu they call 'screens and graphics' in 'other'

i tried adding it but it aint even listed in teh first place to add it!

linux is breaking my heart

Webmonkey

Did you try the instructions in my link above, installing the actual offical drivers?

These generally work.

eurotrotter

Webmonkey wrote: »

Did you try the instructions in my link above, installing the actual offical drivers?

These generally work.

ya i tried it there but its not working at all

any chance we kood use the remote desktop function on it, and for u to have a stab off it. cos i probably doing something stupid now like

thanks
ed

Webmonkey

yep maybe later there.

When you say not working, what you mean? - Did the installer run successfully and ask you to write changes to the xorg.conf file during the installation?

Also, you could have conflicts now with drivers, did you try removing all?

eurotrotter

Webmonkey wrote: »

yep maybe later there.

When you say not working, what you mean? - Did the installer run successfully and ask you to write changes to the xorg.conf file during the installation?

Also, you could have conflicts now with drivers, did you try removing all?

cool that would be great

ya i dont think it got as far as writing changes being honest.

as for driver conflict:

the start up tones are working but vlc isnt playing any audio now though

thanks
ed

Webmonkey

You may have to chose the audio output device in VLC player to Alsa or whatever you using.

Johnboy1951

eurotrotter wrote: »

no difference donal

dunno whats goin on.

found this link oin you tube about missing resolutions:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IGfR8KzhGA

but i dont have that menu they call 'screens and graphics' in 'other'

i tried adding it but it aint even listed in teh first place to add it!

linux is breaking my heart

Maybe not Linux, maybe just Ubuntu

Suggest you try something a bit more user friendly like
Mepis or PCLinuxOS or even Mint which is based off Ubuntu.

There are lots of options and some suit specific hardware better than others.

Kinetic^

Is there any reason you went for 8.10 over 9.04? Try 9.04, should work fine.

eurotrotter

Kinetic^ wrote: »

Is there any reason you went for 8.10 over 9.04? Try 9.04, should work fine.

i upgraded to it, but still nothing