screen resolution

Can you post the output of this command from a terminal window:
lspci

Regards,
Neolithium

Neolithium (Justin Payne) requested for more information:
Can you post the output of this command from a terminal window:
lspci
the output is below
thanks
bryan

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0336
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 1336
0000:00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 2336
0000:00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3336
0000:00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4336
0000:00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 5336
0000:00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 7336
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
0000:00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
0000:00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
0000:00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCIE Bridge
0000:00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
0000:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM) (rev a1)
0000:04:01.0 0403: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)

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Can you post the output of this command from a terminal window:
lspci

Regards,
Neolithium

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Try dpkg-reconfigure but specify nv or nvidia.
You can also try the proprietary drivers from nvidia, go to Menu->System->Administration->Restricted Proprietary Drivers and enable the nvidia ones.
Afterwards you may need to run this command from a terminal or a command prompt (ALT-F2):

nvidia-xconfig

i tired to select nvidia during a dekg-reconfigure. there were a ton of questions to answer i didn't know the answer to. So 2 questions:

  1) my computer will now only show the terminal promt and won't go to the desktop interface. is there anyway to restore (tried rebooting) or do i have to reload ubuntu?
  2) assuming i get ubuntu working again, can you gie more detailed instructions to reset the screen resolution

  note: i am new to linux

Cesare Tirabassi <email address hidden> wrote:
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Cesare Tirabassi proposed the following answer:
Try dpkg-reconfigure but specify nv or nvidia.
You can also try the proprietary drivers from nvidia, go to Menu->System->Administration->Restricted Proprietary Drivers and enable the nvidia ones.
Afterwards you may need to run this command from a terminal or a command prompt (ALT-F2):

nvidia-xconfig

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There is a specific walkthrough for NVIDIA here: http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_setup_nvidia_drivers_in_7.04

Hopefully this will clear it up for you, it's rather straightforward and concise. Generally when you reconfigure the xserver, it's always good to back up your xorg.conf first, so that you can easily revert it once again. Following this guide should get you up and running though once again.

Regards,
Justin