Comment 56 for bug 173418

> ... what's the process for getting a card into the database for PCI IDs?

I see that it's already in the upstream database, and I found the update-pciids command.

I also did some research and found that gdm decides what the screen resolution is be reading the first mode in the Display section of xorg.conf, and was able to fix the problem with the login screen by adjusting the order of the modes in that section so that gdm uses the correct resolution for the login screen.

So now if I could just find a way to get out of low resolution land without jumping outside the package manager's realm, life with Ubuntu would be perfect. :-)