Ubuntu 10.04 screen resolutions

Jason Carson jason-HjkH5KTEMfuEjziKL+yzSg at public.gmane.org
Mon May 31 00:32:38 UTC 2010


After installing Ubuntu only about 5 resolutions where available to me and
none of them where the proper one for my hardware. The proper resolution
became available to me after I installed the non-free Nvidia driver.

> Arg.  Why oh why must everything keep getting "improved" until it is
> broken?
>
> On a new Ubuntu 10.04 install... trying to troubleshoot a problem of
> auto-detected resolutions not including half of the desired resolutions
> which I know the hardware supports.
>
> Unfortunately after a full day of googling and experimenting most of the
> forums posts seem to be either outdated or moronic
> blind-leading-the-blind wrong answers.  The ones that are almost-there
> on what I think has (usually, lately) been the right way of doing it do
> not quite get around my problem.
>
> Does anyone have good suggestions of intelligent Ubuntu forums to post
> something like this in? or would it be too off topic to post such a
> question here?  (I suppose an intelligent Ubuntu forum would be called a
> Debian newsgroup right?  oh zing!)
>
> Cheers.
>
> Martin
>


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