i am have a refresh rate problem with Feisty every time i boot the refresh rate is too high, however if i boot recovery mode and enter sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and then reboot all is fine until the next boot[ot]i select "vesa" and the other defaults except i select the res 1280 X 1024 and 16bit colour depth, if i select 24bit colour it also works for just one boot[/ot]BTW: i'll try net, TIA Edit: found this, will it fix the prob, will keep looking, cheers Edit: no, my mobo is an LGA775, will keep looking
If theres a driver specifically for your unichrome chipset, then try using that instead of the generic vesa driver.
tried searchin net a few times, the mobo (& integrated grfx) is quite old (Foxconn P4m800P7MB-RS2H) and is discontinued and no longer supported[ot]cant even find old drivers[/ot]BTW: think i'll just get a new grfx card[ot]presumably you'd recommend an ATI card, correct ?[/ot]BTW: i don't do anything that graphically intentive
I'd recommend an NVidia card, since NVidia has much, much better drivers currently. You can get a budget NVidia card for almost nothing. For instance, an FX-series card will run you about $30/USD brand new. Not super for gaming, but will do routine 3D well, and definately won't have any problems with large/unusual resolutions or refresh rates.
thankies, i'll start looking for a card[ot]altough my ISPs DNS's are going down regularly now, they were stable but now their going down regularly, i'm going to look into OpenDNS to learn more[/ot]BTW: any help appreciated, thankies again[ot]donkey bows to god (AT)[/ot]
I got a PC with an NVidia Geforce 5800XT running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. It runs great, and runs all effects of Beryl with ease [ot]I can't get Beryl to automatically start after boot[/ot]
[ot] Have you tried using your window manager's auto-start facility to launch it when you first start up? In KDE, just throw a shortcut in ~/.kde/Autostart/[/ot]
[ot]I completely forgot about that. Thanks [/ot] [ot]So Beryl is much better than Windoze Aero, because that needs at least a Geforce 6 [/ot]
[ot] To be honest, Beryl is better than Aero for more reasons than just that! For example, if you open an non-Aero application in Vista, it kills Aero in a very non-graceful manner (screen goes black, monitor loses sync, flashes several times) then goes back to the "classic" rendering motif. Jarring![/ot]
yeah, i have, its still plugged into my old gigabyte mobo[ot]but my new mobo uses a 1.5V AGP X8 & i think my old radeon is a 3V card, or am i wrong again[/ot]BTW: i havent tried it cos i dint want to knacker my new mobo
