my screen resolution is too low!!!:(

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Husse

Re: my screen resolution is too low!!!:(

Post by Husse »

You have a SiS card with shared memory
This is not a good combination
Lets see if it uses the right driver

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lspci -vvnn | grep -i sis
You should find a lot of info about your card here - if you don't do just lspci -vvnn and look it up
Post the section about your video card and we can take it from there
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DrHu

Re: my screen resolution is too low!!!:(

Post by DrHu »

sergioagrelo wrote:If you check the point #2 "Fixed false color" is what exactly my pc looks like...
And do you have it fixed ?
http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net/~linux-s ... =Downloads
--whether or not you want to use someone's personal file collection, there is at least some additional information about the sis driver issues..
Husse

Re: my screen resolution is too low!!!:(

Post by Husse »

You should probably use
http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net/~linux-s ... 9_i386.deb
unless you run 64 bits
Husse

Re: my screen resolution is too low!!!:(

Post by Husse »

everything is the same
low resolution or poor quality or both?
Husse

Re: my screen resolution is too low!!!:(

Post by Husse »

The SiS video cards are no good in Linux (not in Windows either, but it works better there)
There is a somewhat geeky solution that might (just might) help somewhat, but I won't bring it up
I think you have to use the vesa driver (there is no 3D with that card anyway)

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gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
In
Section "Device"
add a line
Driver "vesa"
or if there already is a line with Driver change it
I think it will work better for you
You could also try
Driver "mesa"
If it works it will be better than vesa
If you need more assistance please post your xorg.conf
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