Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Ubuntu 8.10 Rascally Rabbit?

Okay, so I know the naming scheme for Ubuntu is on the Rs yet, but its what I think about whenever I look at the versioning.

I have a Rosewill R912E display and nVidia graphics card. It has this annoying problem whereupon installing a fresh Ubuntu displays a 'Input Not Supported' floating box to the refresh rate on the X server configuration being wrong about my display.

Turns out this problem is twofold.

1) Disable Full GPU Scaling
Add this to the Xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/: Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native"
2) Make the change to the refresh rate outside of the nVidia control panel. Go to System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution and set the refresh rate inside the proper range.

I'm still working out some details. It seems this time around my display is not recognized.

That's one large annoyance resolved somewhat easily now. And noted for all posterity!

Otherwise, Ubuntu is once again taking up residence on my second hard drive. It made way for the Windows 7 beta for a while, but I grew tired of just having IE up and not really doing much other than refreshing MSN.com or google news.