[Cialug] fix resolution and refresh on Xubuntu

Tim Champion timchampion at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 19:13:42 CST 2010


On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Tim Champion <timchampion at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> lspci says Display Controller: Intel 82830 CGC
>>
>> All the suggestions to install this and that distribution instead are
>> pretty moot, as I don't have a functional optical drive, and I can't boot
>> from USB. I installed xubuntu on this a year or 2 ago before the optical
>> drive died.
>>
>>
>
> You shouldn't need an optical drive to switch from xubuntu to ubuntu. I
> think in synaptic you can just install ubuntu-desktop package.
>
> However, I don't know that it is relevant to your problem so I'd fix the
> display resolution first.
>
> Does this seem to describe your problem? If so, there's a proposed fix:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/466813
>
>
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> Sorry, I didn't know I could switch between Xubuntu and Ubuntu without
re-installing.  There's a lot I have to learn.

Anyway, thanks for that bug link, added that parameter in grub, and just
like magic, I have a flicker free 1024x768 display.

All better - Thanks!
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