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I have reviewed the answers that exist. I trialed Ubuntu 14.04 on my Novatech U50SI1 and it ran perfectly albeit slowly, so I installed it in place of Windows XP.

When I booted up 14.04 my screen resolution locked at 800x600 and I do not have the option in settings to have anything other than this resolution.

The text is therefore very large and the screen overflows so that I cannot scroll to some of the command buttons.

Xrandr just errors out with "invalid resolution", no matter what I type (even 800x600).

When I boot from the disk the screen resolution is fine. I think the video card for this model is SIS Mirage 3 but I am not sure how to check. The only driver updates I have found are for windows not Ubuntu and they all have .exe files my Ubuntu install will not run.

I hope this is now clear. My question is how do I change the resolution and also run .exe programs?

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Chris Croxson
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I would suggest going to System Settings/Software & Updates/Additional Drivers/Selecting a driver for your video card, assuming this was not done already. I had the same problem after installing Ubuntu and that is how i solved it.

Mathieu Foucreault
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