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Upgrade Installed, now everything is too big and overlaps

Asked by Sam

I upgraded to the newest Ubuntu the other day, and when my computer restarted, everything was over-sized and overlapping each other. The font is very big and the panel at the bottom of my desktop's icons are overlapping each other, so it's rather difficult to get around. I've tried to change the screen resolution and no difference. Then I tried to reconfigure using one of the codes provided to another question, still no luck. Here are some screenshots:
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l147/SuicidalPete/Screenshot.png
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l147/SuicidalPete/Screenshot-1.png

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Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : 		#1

What is that version you are running?

Chances are you need to install a driver for your graphics card so that you can set the resolution to something more manageable.

Are there any drivers available to enable for you if you go System menu, Administration, Hardware Drivers?

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Sam (ludlowha-samantha) said : 		#2

I have a NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver. I enabled it, but screen resolution still only has the option of 320x240 and 640x480. It's currently using 640x480. I believe I am running the newest version of Ubuntu, the 8.04 (?) one.

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Greg (cebif) said : 		#3

Hi Sam you might see something in this:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/30832
If you're xorg.conf file shows that it is generated for vesa. Post you're xorg.conf file here please.

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Sam (ludlowha-samantha) said : 		#4

Everything's fixed. I had the wrong screen resolution. It didn't allow me other resolution options at first, but now it has the options I needed for the screen to be normal sized again. thank you!