My girlfriend got me a 19" widescreen monitor for Christmas to replace my 20" CRT monitor that had been hogging the better part of my desk for the last 10 months or so. I shutdown my computer, rebooted, and when it came back up, things were a little odd. My resolution was set at 1280x1024 (my old resolution) even though the native resolution of my new LCD screen is 1440x900. I was a little puzzled, so I downloaded the nvidia-settings program to set the resolution manually; after I set it to 1440x900, I was asked to restart X to set the resolution correctly (or something like that). After I rebooted (I know, I could have just reset X), I couldn't even load X, had to try to fix my Xorg.conf from the cli, which wasn't really a problem, except it didn't seem like X was even looking at the xorg.conf file...so I was stuck. Luckily, I'd installed Gentoo on a different partition, so I booted into that, emerged k3b (which took at least 2 hours), burned a new gutsy cd, and re-installed ubuntu.
My adventure doesn't stop here. After I reboot and boot from my new ubuntu partition, I'm stuck at 1024x768 with about 3 inches of black on the left side of the screen. Daunting. I installed the nvidia-glx-new driver, rebooted, and I was set...I just got compiz fusion going, and now I'm happy.
What I'm not happy about is the time it took me to get the whole thing up and running. Just to get the correct resolution on a new monitor, I spent at least 10 hours configuring, installing, reinstalling, and praying. Whenever I read stories about how hard something was for somebody to do with linux, I tend to roll my eyes and think "No way it was that hard. I could fix that in a minute", and I'm sure someone is going to do that here as well. Just let me prefix the flaming by saying I'm pretty experienced with linux, and it took me 10 hours. Just think about how a linux novice (someone using an eeepc/gPC) would react!
That's all, let the flames begin.
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