I cannot set my screen resolution above 640x480@50hz although my HW supports much better.

[Nick]

I have just installed. At Ubuntu's prompt, I installed the Nvidia driver provided by the "wizard". (I really just sat and watched after clicking OK)

During my installation, I found the prompts near impossible to follow because Ubuntu chose 800x600 which cut off the buttons at the bottom of each window. I only managed to install by shrinking the fonts and moving the top and bottom menu bars to the sides of the screen.

Since installation of the Nvidia driver, the resolution panel offers me 320x240@51hz and 640x480@50hz. My eyes are in pain as I type.

I am using a Samsung 900nf CRT monitor (recognized by Ubuntu) capable of resolutions above 1600x1200.

GPU is an integrated 6150 on an ASUS AMD board A8N-VM-CSM (I think) also capable of res above 640.

I am new to linux and ubuntu so I am sorry if I have somehow missed something but I have tried quite hard to solve this and Ubuntu asked me if I wanted to report a "problem" so here we are.

This is the full release of Ubuntu 7.10 for AMD 64 if that wasn't already clear.

Is there more info I could provide?

Thank you,

Nick Syperek

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 21 21:00:19 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: yelp
ProcCwd: /home/nick
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux nichine 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 21:45:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in xorg.

[Nick (nick-ringaudio)]

Thanks. I was unsure. I could only have called it Ubuntu. I will look
into the link you sent.

I am really hoping to explore Ubuntu after hearing so much about it.
50hz is very hard to bear though.

thanks again,

Nick

Brian Murray wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which
> is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper
> developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this
> bug as a bug in xorg.
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: None => xorg
>
>

[Nick (nick-ringaudio)]

My apologies for the messy addition above.

The problem is manifest in the main "desktop" portion of the Ubuntu experience but during the boot process, the screen resolution appears much higher for the Ubuntu logo.
I will try uninstalling the Nvidia driver.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Please try to set this option for the driver (/etc/X11/xorg.conf):

Option "NoEDID"

and restart your X.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

No reply from the submitter, closing the bug.