64 studio resolution

[ryokimball]

Good night! I feel insomniatic so I'm up installing 64 Studio 2.0 (Electric) onto my monster computer (replacing Fedora 8, which I admittedly have not been using much since installation...), and it looks like it might be pretty nice for all sorts of stuff; but I can't get a resolution set! Here's xorg.conf (I edited it, like I have learned to do every time I touch a this computer with Linux):

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE]"
	Monitor		"VA1930wm"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		1
		Modes		"1440x1440" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		4
		Modes		"1440x1440" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		8
		Modes		"1440x1440" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		15
		Modes		"1440x1440" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		16
		Modes		"1440x1440" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1440x1440" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Sorry if that's too much information... with my current 640x480 resolution, it's kinda hard to see or judge anything.
Anyways, I'm not enjoying the technical side of this installation, but I would be much more amiable towards it if I could see what I'm doing. Like I mentioned, I edited the xorg.conf file, but I still have no option besides 640x480. I'm thinking perhaps the program thingy that lets me choose the resolution is messed up, but this is already into an area I don't understand. I'm going to sleep and will probably mess with it more later, but I would appreciate it if someone could offer some advice on the matter.

[devils casper]

Have you installed nVidia Driver? Which driver are you using right now?

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep driver

[ryokimball]

Heh... oops. Late night installs, eh? (Although I Could have sworn it did...)

I'm downloading this now, but since I'm here I thought I would mention that the "cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep driver" didn't do anything... is it trying to say that no drivers are installed?

And another curiosity: when I restart x-server (ctrl+alt+backspace) then log back in, it says that I already have a toolbar running, and thus does not start one. Any ideas on that? Not too important, though; I won't be restarting X all the time....

[ryokimball]

Okay, I kinda feel bad about asking this, but how do you install the Nvidia drivers?

I used Synaptic to install glx and dependencies, and tried out some other things. I also printed out this pretty little tutorial by Maurice Lawles, but I don't know where the the files are downloaded to, making this impossible. Am I just being ignorant, or is there something I am missing?...

[devils casper]

That tutorial is a bit old because Ubuntu doesn't have any /etc/inittab file now.
Download Nvidia Driver from its WebSite, save it on desktop. Press Alt+Ctrl+F1 and execute this

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
cd Desktop
chmod +x <nvidia_driver>
sh <nvidia_driver>