----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Stimpson" <paul@???>
To: "Hampshire LUG Mailing List" <hampshire@???>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] x configuration on GeForce 8400 GS
[snip]
>Your card appears to be supported so Ubuntu should have done this for you.
>When you first >started Gnome a little PCI card icon (or something like
>that should have appeared on the top >bar and offered to install the nVidia
>proprietary drivers. Did this happen? If not have a look in
> >administration, preferences and system. Somewhere there should be a
>program with driver in >its name that should do the installation.
Yes it did but I then got a blank screen as soon as this happened. Only
manual faffing around with xorg.conf has got me even this far.
>Another possibility is that your monitor hasn't been properly detected.
>Have you found the >settings to specify the monitor type and set it to a
>panel of the right resolution if the >autodetection isn't working?
I would love to know where I change the monitor settings - can't find this
anywhere!
Cheers
Rob
