After restarting with my preferred resolution I restart and it gives me a warning regarding no accelerators and my system may run slow with high cpu usage. It builds a cache and then lists an open source driver or the recommended nvidia driver.The display resolution is 640 x 480 (4:3) and says its a laptop default screen res.I was once able to scroll down to where my 1366 x 768 resolution should be but it doesn't drop down so I get no other resolution choices.Now the right side of the screen on the display page doesn't show the bar that indicates you can go lower on the page. I've tried the open source and the recommended nvidia driver with the same result.I read the other posts suggested by the forum but it doesn't address this problem.My computer is unusable in this state.

Tell us your computer specs?

Laptop, desktop, video card?

Desktop software (XFCE, Cinnamon, Mate) ?


When you goto "Menu > Setting > Display" can you adjust your resolution to what you want?

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Sorry, rookie mistake. It's a dell 537s desktop with 32 bit vista as stock os. The video card is a nvidia gt 430 1gb vram,2gb system ram., pentium dual core cpu.I have the cinnamon desktop. Before it was defaulting to a 1080p resolution and I could adjust it to the proper resolution, now when I re-start the system I get a laptop 640x 480 resolution that I can't adjust. The drop menu doesn't have any other res options.It has a battery icon on the bottom of the screen even though its a desktop computer.The screen is so big it usually only shows the resolution options and it doesn't allow me to scroll down to see if the other resolutions choices have dropped down. I was able to scroll down once but the 640x 480 res is the only choice it gives me.The res setting doesn't drop down like it's supposed to.

Sounds like you are running on the open source driver. Use the driver manager and install nvidia driver, it should be the 390 that supports your card. If your resolution is stopping you, then do some research on how to use xrandr. xrandr will allow you to change your resolution or add customer resolutions that your monitor supports.

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It immediately opens driver manager,then builds cache then ,driver manager then shows the device is using the recommended driver-390.It shows 2 other choices for the driver.

The update manager showed a newer nvidia driver update but I installed it with no difference. I'm going to try the older 340 nvidia driver.EDIT:My attempt to use older driver failed.

I tried setting the res through xrandr.Only errors. If it's this god damn hard to get a simple rsolution to work maybe linux isnt for me.

I tried the 4 other kernels via advanced settings on the boot menu. Two of them let me set a pseudo 1024x600(?) resolution and it does give more visible options in that mode. I say pseudo since it's connected to a 720p/1080i TV. The tv shows the res at 1929 x 1080 @ 60 hz.I don't know if this will burn out my tv. I think the tv is supposed to run at 60 hz but I'm not sure.

Please do and paste here the resulting URL so that we can see what X has to report about what it is doing and any errors. If you get a file not found error, do pastebinit .local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log instead.

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I put both of those pieces of code in and it says pastebinit not found but can be installed with sudo apt install pastebin.After that command is input it reads package lists ,builds dependency tree, and reads state information.Then it says E: unable to locate package pastebin. I put the code you listed after that and it again says not found but can be installed with the sudo apt install pastebin command again. I looked at my updates and there is nothing relevant to this problem.

TryNormally pastebinit is part of a standard installation of each Debian derivative. Mint is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian.

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I'll try the code you newly put but now I'm getting a notification of a broken package.EDIT: I just did the longer bits of code you posted and it lists 8 hits then reads lists ,builds dependencies,reads state information. It says 3 packages can be upgraded. and suggests some code to run to correct these. Then it has some packages. Two have nvidia in the name and 1 is listed that have unmet dependencies as E: .Then it says command pastebinit not found,etc. I'm going to try to fix my broken install.

The function of pastebinit can be accomplished by visiting http://pastebin.com/ (or equivalent) and uploading the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Pastebinit is a simple facilitator for the process of temporarily sharing large files. Other locations for such file sharing include:

• http://susepaste.org/
• http://paste.centos.org/
• http://paste.debian.net/
• http://paste.fedoraproject.org
• http://paste.ubuntu.com/
• https://gist.github.com/

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I tried to download chromium and got the message the software index is broken and lists ways to check for broken packages, etc.Not good.

I restored via timeshift.I am able to adjust the resolution to 1360 x 768. Now I have 71 updates and no idea which I should install. I installed all of them last time.