If you have the NVIDIA drivers installed, you should have the "nvidia-settings" tool available. I wouldn't recommend changing anything with this tool (best to leave that to your distro's tools), but it can tell you the resolution you are running in and some other diagnostic details. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Karl Schuttler <<a href="mailto:karl.schuttler@gmail.com">karl.schuttler@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> If you could, please also paste the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. The mail servlist seems to remove any images you attach, so don't worry about them, or upload them to a free picture host (<a href="http://imageshack.us" target="_blank">imageshack.us</a> for example) and provide a link. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:05 PM, gordon webb <<a href="mailto:gordonwebb1@yahoo.com">gordonwebb1@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: > Hello all > > Ross Smith found my vidio card's information from my terminals responce: > "01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8300 GS (rev a1) > you have a nVidia GeForce 8300 GS" > > Also attache are snap shot of my screen to make the problem clearer. > > Thank you > > Gordon > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/png which had a name of Screenshot.png] > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/png which had a name of Screenshot-2.png] > -- > *** Sent from <a href="mailto:linux-users@lugwash.org">linux-users@lugwash.org</a> *** <a href="http://www.lugwash.org" target="_blank">http://www.lugwash.org</a> > to unsubscribe: `echo "unsubscribe" | mail <a href="mailto:linux-users-request@lugwash.org">linux-users-request@lugwash.org</a>` > _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>