I recently loaded Ubuntu 20.04 onto a new 1TB hard drive in an old eMachines desktop computer.
Info: NVIDIA GeForce 7050 Integrated graphics card VGA port on desktop; no other display ports Acer 20” LCD monitor, model X203H Monitor has a VGA port and a DVI-D port. (I’m using VGA).
I’m looking for a way to set display resolution to 1152 x 864. The GUI only offers one option - 640 x 480.
Initially, the GUI display was pretty bad. I could only work in terminal. (Problems: image tearing, tiling, background image was discolored and pixelated all over, etc. I couldn’t check display settings at first, because I couldn’t read any of the options; dialog boxes would overlay the active box if I moused over the area on screen).
So, I’ve: . Downloaded and attempted to install the appropriate NVIDIA drivers (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.135).
. This fails, but has somehow resolved most of the problems with the GUI. The error message: “Installation has failed. Please see the file ‘var/log/NVIDIA-installer.log’ for details. The log mentions certain error codes (Error 127, Error 2, Error 1). I have yet to unravel / translate the errors.
. The drivers are partially successful, the GUI can now be used. The colors are full and rich, images and colors are stable when I mouse over them, no more tiling and very little tearing. The biggest remaining problem that I notice is that Displays | Resolution offers only one option 640 x 840 (4:3). With a 20” monitor, this means I have really large images and fonts, and I have to scroll or move dialog boxes in order to read everything in the box. Ideally, I think I need to set resolution to 1152 x 864.
. Tried xrandr, but it returns the error “Can’t open display”
. lshw -c video command returns as part of it’s response that display is “unclaimed”
. cvt 1152 864 75 command doesn’t throw an error, but appears to have no affect.
Anyone else running in to these problems? Any help would be appreciated.
