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Cannot change screen resolution

Asked by KeithAu

When I boot into the installation of Ubuntu 8.10 the screen resolution is set at 640 x 480 and there are no options to change this in the installation interface. I cannot change the area where I live or change any of the default installation options as a result. If I escape from the installation the Ubuntu desktop is still there, when I try to change the resolution from there I cannot get to the options to change anything as the buttons are at the bottom of the screen and I cannot drag the window up far enough to get to the buttons to make the change. If I maximise the window and click anywhere on it, it jumps to display the bottom buttons, but when i click on a button it jumps back to the top of the window, and then I cannot close the window because if i click on the X in the top right or right click on the top bar it jumps back to the bottom.

How do I change the resolution?????? I had this problem with 8.04 and now with 8.10, surely this problem should have been fixed!!

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Best Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#1

If you have trouble reaching the proper buttons with low screen resolutions, try using ALT+left-click to drag the window to a new position.

If you are still having problems, you should make sure that you have the properly display drivers enable for your graphics card.

Hope this helps

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KeithAu (kau42686) said : 		#2

Thank you the ALT+left-click works well, but i noticed that I have to choose a weird resolution of something like 864 x 638 (an option offered in the menu) in order for it to display properly. 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 didn't display properly. As for drivers i am not sure where to obtain them from I have a Sapphire Radeon 9200SE Atlantis Graphics card, which windows already has a driver for and the disk I got with it, doesn't work in Ubuntu.

This has for the most part solved my problem of being able to reset the resolution to a usable setting, but not the entire problem. But Thank-you again for you assistance.