Screen Resolution

[stupidasschunk]

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So I switched monitors and the right resolutions for my monitor won't show up. I know this is a common problem, I've done some looking around but everything I do just seem to not work.

The monitor I use now can reach up to 1280x1024 but the highest resolution I can get is 1360x768 which really looks weird on my monitor.

xorg.conf

Section "Monitor"

# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "LKM"
HorizSync 31.0 - 56.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 85.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce2 MX/MX 400"
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "metamodes" "1024x768_70 +0+0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "1024x768_70 +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "1024x768_60 +0+0; 1024x768_70 +0+0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "1024x768_70 +0+0; 1024x768_60 +0+0"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "1024x768_60 +0+0; 1024x768_70 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

The only resolutions showing up on my pc are:
1360x768
1024x768
832x624
800x600
720x450
720x400
680x384
640x480
640x400


I think it could be a vertrefresh/horizsync problem and I tried using ddcprobe but it didn't show 'monitorrange' which is supposed to show vertrefresh and horizsync

I tried searching but I couldn't find the specs of my monitor. What should I do?

[Rubberman]

Are you using the built-in nvidia driver, or one installed that you downloaded from nvidia? There should be an executable /usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig that will interrogate your hardware and figure out what modes are available to you, and it will rewrite your xorg.conf file as necessary.

[stupidasschunk]

I just activated the one listed on Hardware Drivers.

[Rubberman]

I just activated the one listed on Hardware Drivers.

Ok. That is normally an older "beta" version. I would suggest that you either install a newer one using the Synaptic package manager (or apt-get), or download and install one from the nVidia web site. FWIW, on my CentOS system, yum shows that there are about 5 nvidia drivers available. The newest ones are fairly recent dkms drivers. I tried them and found that I still prefer the ones I download directly from nVidia. The only problem with that is they aren't dkms enabled so you will have to reinstall them whenever you install a new kernel. If you get the dkms-nvidia-x11-drv driver it will be auto-installed whenever you change the kernel.

[stupidasschunk]

Total noob questions.

What should I look for in the Synaptic Package Manager or what command should I enter in apt-get? How would I know which version of the driver should I download? The nVidia drivers site is down at the moment. Thanks.

[oz]

Total noob questions.

What should I look for in the Synaptic Package Manager or what command should I enter in apt-get? How would I know which version of the driver should I download? The nVidia drivers site is down at the moment. Thanks.

You can check the Debian Wiki (Ubuntu is based on Debian) for info on package management:

DebianPackageManagement - Debian Wiki

It covers apt, synaptic, aptitude, and other package tools.

Additional info (noted as obsolete, but it's still useful) on using apt can be found here:

APT HOWTO (Obsolete Documentation)

[oz]

In addition, the Ubuntu folks have a pretty nice HowTo for using Synaptic here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto

[Rubberman]

Use the GUI filter capability to search for nvidia and dkms. FWIW, dkms stands for Dynamic Kernel Module Support. A number of driver and module providers are adding support for it since it simplifies migrating drivers and add-on kernel modules to newly installed kernel versions. DKMS was created by Dell to help in migrating drivers to new versions of Linux. Here is a link of interest: Dell - Dell Linux - Projects

[stupidasschunk]

Thanks, guys.

[terencetsao]

I have that same problem too..