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From: "Bob Dunlop" <bob.dunlop@???>
To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] x configuration on GeForce 8400 GS
> On Wed, Dec 31 at 11:09, Rob Malpass wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Hmm blank screen on Ubuntu sounds familiar.
> Is this another combination where Compiz needs to be disabled ?
>
> sudo apt-get autoremove compiz
> sudo apt-get autoremove compiz-core
>
> Fixed my blank screen problems on a Dell with U8.10 recently.
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Thanks all for your help. The solution was, as I often find with Linux,
delightfully simple once you find it. I downloaded a program called
displayconfig-gtk through synaptic - no special repositories required as I
recall.
This gives you a screen to fiddle with before booting to the window manager.
Here not only could I bump up the monitor res (which must have been why
nothing > 800x600 was on the list) but other options too. When I then got
through to gnome, it told me that the nvidia drivers weren't in use, so I
enabled them and bingo - I now have 32-bit colour depth at 1024x768 and it's
even running those nice openGL screensavers.
A day of searching lost I guess but now it's working. Another post related
to this coming up.
Cheers
Rob
