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I built my first server and displayed 1920X1080 properly through the built in video VGA, on MOBO. After confirming that worked I installed Matrox M9120 PCI x16 and was lowered to 1024X768 resolution.

I downloaded the proper .run file and followed some instructions i found on Google to unpack the drivers and run them ./[name].run. Terminal showed the drivers installed. As a long time Windows user my train of thought was the proper resolution would be enabled. Not as such! Any tips on what I am doing incorrectly?

Also when I installed 8GB of ram, it shows 7.9GB installed. With 16GB it showed 15.7 installed. I had assumed that the system allocated some RAM to video when I was using VGA. When I turned MOBO video off in BIOS it continued to display 15.7gB free. Is this video related or simply Linux's way of showing RAM count?

Maythux
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First you have to switch to non graphical tty suppose tty1 ctrl+alt+F1

login with username and password

stop lightdm: sudo stop lightdm

Give execute permission to the .run file driver sudo chmod +x driver.run

Now run the script by sudo ./driver.run

then reboot and you should now be working on the new driver

Maythux
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