Laptop resolution issue.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 02:10:03AM -0500, jim wrote:
> 
> > > Usually there is some arcane keystroke to cycle between the external
> > > video adapter, the internal screen, or both.
> > 
> > nvidia-settings no longer has support to change resolutions?
> Yes but none show up. The only resolution I see is 1440x900 for some
> strange reason.
> > 
> 
> > > 
> > > Does the Xorg.0.log file show any consideration of the setting in
> > > 10-monitor.conf?  For example, some hint of rejection?
> > 
> > Well xrandr used to not work with the nvidia driver.  I think they claim
> > to have fixed that, although I haven't tried yet.
> 
> I tried xrandr but haven't had any luck either. I'll try the nvidia
> forum and see if anyone has any thoughts over there.as to whats going
> on.

Well it seems you are not alone:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/202766/only-one-resolution-available-in-xorg-conf

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