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Asked by jqadams

I downloaded ubunti using wubi and all went well. It boots up, sound works (hear the ubuntu boot up sounds), surfs the internet fine and very happy mostly. My box is an amd dual core 3800, 1 gig ram, asus mobo with nvidia chipset for video, samsung monitor (widescreen). The only resolution option I have is 640 x 480 in ubuntu. In XP I run it at the 1200 by 700 something resolution with no problems in XP home. Firefox looks huge in ubuntu, I must scroll back and forth at this low resolution. Now I can't bring up the system settings from the option at the top of the screen, it opens the mail program when I click system - the options at the top of the screen were working fine. I tried to listen to a radio station on the internet air1.com and it won't play (the radio stations on the installed music player worked). It tried to download the adobe flash player and just hangs up the whole distro. I can see pictures on the internet when I click the link on forums that I visit, but videos and slideshows won't play. Codecs were downloaded in one of the updates. I tried to download a game and install it - Enemy Territory linux version. It downloaded and when unzips wont install. I can't use the terminal to try to install as I am noob with linux commands. appreciate the help especially with the resolution problem, online radio problem, video player problem...jqa

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Agostino Russo (ago) said : 		#1

Probably you need to install an appropriate video driver. System > Admin > Restricted Drivers. Also search ubuntuforums for the specific make and model of your video card.

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jqadams (physician97) said : 		#2

I don't have a video card on my mobo, its a video chipset on the mobo. I tried system > admin > hardware drivers and that got me to the current problem. my resolution before this was 800x600 and after its 640x480. I just reinstalled everything and thats the first problem. I changed the setting back to the previous default config and its rebooting now. I am looking at nvidias website to see if i can get the linux drivers for this mobo, but not sure i can install them. and thanks agostino, i am noob with linux, but i really like how much its changed since i tried to install suse and knoppix a few years ago...jqa

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jqadams (physician97) said : 		#3

I downloaded the nvidia drivers for the video chipset. they downloaded as a .run file. i opened the terminal and used the sh command per the nvidia instructions and it wont open - says can't open. this is the installer for the nvidia drivers. windows has linux beat here since these things occur automatically. I tried to open the nvidia launcher by double clicking on it and it asks what i want to use to open it. How do you open bin files, rpm files and .run files? Thanks for your help. I am persisting...jqa

here are the instructions i have tried:
After you have downloaded the file NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg#.run, change to the directory containing the downloaded file, and as the root user run the executable:

    # cd yourdirectory
    # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg#.run

The .run file is a self-extracting archive. When executed, it extracts the contents of the archive and runs the contained nvidia-installer utility, which provides an interactive interface to walk you through the installation.

nvidia-installer will also install itself to /usr/bin/nvidia-installer, which may be used at some later time to uninstall drivers, auto-download updated drivers, etc. The use of this utility is detailed later in this chapter.

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jqadams (physician97) said : 		#4

i may not have been logged in as root user. How do you do that? I may not have been in yourdirectory - i selected my username and desktop but did not log in as root user - is that the su or something like that? thanks...jqa

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Agostino Russo (ago) said : 		#5

You should not login as root (in fact that login is disabled). You will be prompted if admin rights are required.

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