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Offline Motherland

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Troubles with Ubuntu
« on: October 14, 2008, 06:50:20 PM »
Trying to get my Ubuntu partition working well again, after giving up a few months ago. Have a couple weird problems;

First of all, I can't mount the Local Disc. I don't know why, but it gives me an error when I try. I'll post the message it's giving me later/tomorrow, as I'm running XP right now.
Second, I'm having several display problems. Originally the main problem was that images were being distorted in Firefox. I don't know what that's all about. Now I have another, more annoying problem... I was trying to run Aces High through Wine, and it changed my screen resolution to... I guess 800x780 or whatever. When Aces High failed to start up completely (still having a hell of a time with Wine), I had to manually reset my resolution to 1680x1050... and when I did, all text became very blurry... not to the point where I can't read it, but it's extremely annoying.

Other than that, I'm still can't get barely anything to run with Wine, but I think that's something I can eventually solve on my own.

Offline Birddogg

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Re: Troubles with Ubuntu
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2008, 07:33:02 PM »
If your text is blurry, try reducing Anisotropic filtering in your video card settings.

Offline Motherland

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Re: Troubles with Ubuntu
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2008, 08:29:52 PM »
Here's what pictures look like;

If your text is blurry, try reducing Anisotropic filtering in your video card settings.
I have the drivers, but I can't seem to find the nVIDIA control panel. I don't think Ubuntu is able to use it.

Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Re: Troubles with Ubuntu
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2008, 01:09:24 AM »
Here's what pictures look like;
I have the drivers, but I can't seem to find the nVIDIA control panel. I don't think Ubuntu is able to use it.
I think that your problem is wine not being able to handle 1680x1050 in reality so it just scales up a lower resolution image.
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Offline 68Wooley

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Re: Troubles with Ubuntu
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2008, 04:01:29 PM »
Here's what pictures look like;
(Image removed from quote.)I have the drivers, but I can't seem to find the nVIDIA control panel. I don't think Ubuntu is able to use it.

Go to applications->add / remove applications. Run a search for nvidia and select NVIDIA X-SERVER SETTINGS from the resulting list.

After that, the Nvidia x-settings app will be in your system->administration menu

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Re: Troubles with Ubuntu
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2008, 04:08:34 PM »
One other thing:

Before you do anything with your video settings, back up your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. If you screw up, you can always roll back to the original file from a console window.

Offline chewie86

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Re: Troubles with Ubuntu
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2008, 10:45:59 AM »
will AH2 work with wine ?    I couldnt with my Xubuntu, so I ran it through cedega, very good FR with very low end hardware
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