NVIDIA driver causes kernel freeze

[Goh Lip]

On 08/26/2010 09:36 AM, Steve Morris wrote:
> On 25/08/10 15:49, Ric Moore wrote:

>> I have a "plug n play" monitor that identifies itself and is detected by
>> the nvidia setup thingie. Before I ran it, I had a sparse bare little
>> xorg.conf file. After I ran it, it's now populated with the entries I
>> used to have to make by hand. YMMV, Ric
>>
>>
> My monitor is detected automatically and correctly by ubuntu, but the
> monitor is internally optimised for 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz, but with the
> xorg.conf the nvidia utility creates the drivers want to run the monitor
> at 1280x1024 @ 50Hz which pushes the display off the left hand edge of
> the monitor. Consequently I have to put the modeset statements in by
> hand to get things to run properly.

Wouldn't setting up the monitor at systems settings==>Display and 
monitor and *then* Nvidia Xserver Settings ==>Save to X configuration help?

Regards - Goh Lip