hello
I have an acer with vista on it. last night I put ubuntu on it. (to try it out) but the display is big. my question is. where do you adjust the screen resolution ?

thanx.

Have you installed your graphics driver yet? I'm not familiar with Ubuntu myself, but here's what I do after a fresh install..

System > Update Manager > Check

For me, I change my resolution through Nvidia X Server Settings. ATI would probably have their own, but the other forum members would be able to better help you.

everything in vista is perfect. its only in ubuntu that everything is BIG.
thanx

I have an acer with vista on it. last night I put ubuntu on it. (to try it out)

Everything works in Vista because when they sold the laptop everything came pre-configured/installed from the manufacturer. Also from what I gather you are just running live so any changes will not take after you reboot. Just so you are aware of that.

As Kaister mentioned you need the right drivers for display to render correctly.

One thing you can try (you must have internet access to do this a to download the driver)

Go to System>Administration>Hardware Drivers

Left click on Hardware Drivers and see what it picks up. If it gives you a driver to install. Use that. You will need to do this step every time you reboot if running live as like I said. Changes aren't saved running in live mode.

hello & thanks

live ?

when I start my laptop I get A screen to choose either vista or ubuntu.

It installed on computer inside vista. if I change drivers wouldn't that affect vista?

I can live with it the way it is. I just thought there would be a resolution setting inside ubuntu.

thanx

kenny, now don't get offended but I am not a mind reader. The info provided by you is sparse at best. You haven't stated much at all.
Are you running a wubi install?
Are you running Ubuntu this way?
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or this way?
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or this way?
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Yes there is a way to set screen resolution in Ubuntu. There is a online manual. You haven't told me what version of Ubuntu you have installed either so guessing again here is a manual
Ubuntu:Karmic -

Bookmark the manual in your browser when you need to reference on how to do something.

To change screen resolution with out effecting Windows go to

System>Preferences>Screen Resolution

on the top left hand side of top menu bar.

@Roky: I believe what he did was install Ubuntu within Vista. It's what I'm doing right now, having Ubuntu installed within Windows 7.

What happens is you can boot into it separately during boot-up but at the same time you can simply uninstall Ubuntu in WIndows Vista/7 using the "Add/Remove" utility. I think it's a new trick they added to 9.04 or 9.10 since I don't remember 8.10 having it.

@Kenny: Installing new drivers for Ubuntu won't affect Vista in any way at all, so you do not need to worry about that.

Best thing for you to do now is to check for updates and drivers and install them. Changes you make to Ubuntu won't affect your Windows Vista at all.

@Roky: I believe what he did was install Ubuntu within Vista. It's what I'm doing right now, having Ubuntu installed within Windows 7

As far as I know only wubi or This Link (which now looks as only working with 32 bit XP) I posted are the only ways to install Ubuntu inside of Windows besides running Virtual Box. That was why I asked.

Are you running a wubi install?

Amd just for info purposes. Wubi installs have been around since Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

Since 8.04, there has been 8.10,9.04, and now there is 9.10. All possible to install using the wubi installer.

Since I run a full install of Linux without running inside of Windows I have hardly any experience with wubi installs which is a different breed of install altogether. Ubuntu Forums used to have a wubi section in the forums but things changed this past year and they moved it into general help.
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Rocky
I appolagize for lack of info. (no offence taken) & thanks for the links.

kaistar: you are dead on. and when I entered ubuntu today the update manager had 355 updates. since then everything seems to be good !!!

PS: you can change the screen resolution from desktop. system > Preferences > screen resolution
PSS: I'm not sure of wubi install or version #. Iv'e had this ubuntu disc laying around for about a year now (hense the 355 updates)
Thanks for all the help (I'm sure i'll be back)

Glad to hear you have thick skin Kenny. I can tell you what is going on if you open a terminal from Applications>Accesories>Terminal and you can type in

Code:

lsb_release -a

copy and paste info in next post.

To see how your partitions look type in

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

That is a lower cas L after the dash mark

enter your password (you won't see anything happen, it is a security feature) and hit enter. Then copy and paste readout in next post.

This will give me a better idea later when you ask questions on how you are running Linux.

Some useful commands you can download and use. Just put them in your Documents folder in Home.
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