i have ubuntu 7.10 installed. i need help with my display settings.

the refresh rate seems to be stuck at 60htz. i need help changing this to 85, in xorg.conf
the other problem is that i installed the ati driver through the installer app, but my xorg file still reports a generic vesa driver. how do i force it to use the ati one?

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Have you try unsing PowerStrip? Thats is probably the best display tweak software, allows you to change refresh rate by 1 MHz increasement.

FOr the driver you might wanna uninstall the driver in Device Manager then re-install it manually.

Hope that helps.

this is for linux, not windows. no device manage or power strip here.

i managed to get the driver running and the refresh rate setup.
now im trying to get compiz setup.

This post has been edited by lagos: Nov 17, 2007 - 1:55 AM

Ahhh the penguine... Well GL.

This post has been edited by lubu: Nov 17, 2007 - 4:40 AM

kinda offtopic but do you guys think it would be difficult to take off fedora 5 which i have right now and go into unbuntu with compiz with a xp pro partition already on it, dont want to lose the dual boot setup but havnt found much on taking off linux and reinstalling it on machines with different distros

its possible, but as with anything linux, it probably wont be easy. hopefully jason will pop in here with an idea. he's the linux guru, and im just learning.

i finally managed to get compiz working. its awesome! its great to see how fast all these 3d effects can work, compared to how slow they run in vista.

ive tried many distros over the years, and this is probably the first time that i actually feel like i have something thats better then windows. but.. in all honesty, linux still has a long way to go before its ready for the mainstream. simple things like setting graphics drivers, monitor rez, even simple networking are still a pain in the ass to get working.

tell me about it, fedora 5 could not get my drivers for wireless to work if my life depended on it, although i will have to say that if anyone has used backtrax 2 for wireless learning/hacking (legal lab work) that it is without a doubt the best disk distro as it has drivers for a very popular driver card 3945abg that microsoft makes, and it works like a dream. Im hoping that i can get compiz on eventually and make people think im on vista and then be like nope its linux and watch their faces