Issue with NVIDIA card

[Nils Kassube]

Georgi Kourtev wrote:
> I have new installation of 12.04 with all updates on a PC with NVIDIA
> video card.  Before upgrading to KDE 4.11 the graphic worked fine. 
> After the upgrade the resolution after login is always incredibly low
> and one should move it to more decent one (like 1280x800 or more). 
> The issue is that the setting is not kept after loging out or
> restart.
> 
> On that computer none of the NVIDIA proprietary drivers were
> installed, as I am not sure which one of the six listed should be
> used.

I could think of two solutions:

1. Someone else had a similar problem some time ago and [1] solved it.

2. You could use the proprietary nvidia driver (I'm using 
nvidia-current-updates) and after the installation modify the file
"/etc/X11/xorg.conf" to include only the wanted resolution. Here is the
relevant section from my xorg.conf which has several resolutions listed:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "1600x1200 +0+0; 1280x960 +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"   
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection


Nils

[1] <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/2011-August/054385.html>