Resolution - BT5 Gnome

[sgtsteamy]

I am having issues finding a solution to fixing the resolution size in my newly installed BT5. It is currently set to "800:600." And I would love to change it to "1280:720." In BT4 I used the old "fix-vesa" but that alas that doesn't work. :/

Sorry for posting such an [I'm assuming obvious once I figure it out] question. But I've searched around and haven't found any quick fixes.

Thank you ahead of time for your answers and your patience.

[Cortex]

Which VGA do you have ? Did you install the drivers if you have ATI or Nvidea ?

[vishnuval]

Maybe you can see the step-by-step here
http://vishnuvalentino.com/tips-and-...n-backtrack-5/
I hope it helps

[sgtsteamy]

Which VGA do you have ? Did you install the drivers if you have ATI or Nvidea ?

I found my graphics card by using this command

lspci|grep nVidia

I found I am using the

Nvidea NVS 5100M

I continued to install the driver and when I locate to the monitor configuration under system > preferences > monitors, I get the following message:

It appears that your graphics driver does not support the necessary extensions to use this tool. Do you want to use your graphics driver vendor's tool instead? Yes.

Then I get the following:

You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.

What now?!

Sorry again for the simplicity of my questions. I am still learning and am a beginner. Thanks for all of your help and great links posted thus far!

[sulasno]

how do I install ATI drivers ?