Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #322870
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 322870

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Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario (kemelzaidan) wrote :

This bug happened to me on Jaunty only. On Hardy, I could get a higher resolution using displayconfig-gtk and choosing the right monitor from the list. I have an AOC Spectrum 7VlrA, which I could find on the list.

But on Jaunty things got much worse because displayconfig-gtk isn't available. I tried several times to get a resolution higher than 800x600. The most weird thing is that the highest resolution available with the nvidia drivers installed was below that: only 640x480.

Nvidia-settings as root doesn't show better options and nvidia-xconfig tool isn't successful on recognizing the hardware and can't write a good xorg.conf.

The only workaround I could do after so many tries was running a Hardy live-cd session and installing the nvidia drivers. After that I copied the xorg.conf and the ~/.nvidia-settings-rc on a USB drive and used on my jaunty install. This way I can get resolutions higher than 800x600.