help wth screen resolution
Garry Trethewey
garrytreth at bigpond.com
Tue Dec 11 19:27:09 CST 2007
Adam Hawes wrote:
>> All this is in aid getting Gutsy to work as well as Feisty. I've kinda
>> given up on getting Gutsy to see my video card. Is it possible that the
>> radeon driver in Gutsy has reduced capabilities compared to the one in
>> Feisty. They wouldn't do that would they? (outrage)
>>
>> So if I buy a new card that Gutsy will recognise, I'd better find out if
>> whatever I'm geting now is what it does.
>
> You need to install the restricted driver module for ATI.
but it won't support radeon 9200, it's too old. I don't play games etc,
I just have 2 big screens that let me keep documents etc visible.
The opensource one
> doesn't do acceleration in all cases. I do believe it does XRandR (resize
> and rotate if you didn't know that) for only the newest cards.
>
> A
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Garry Trethewey
I heard it's hard to transmit a virus in semaphore,
but moving there didn't help.
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