Help for screen Resolution

[Jack Bowling]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 04:36:22PM +0530, Ashfaq Shaikh wrote:
> Dear friends,
> 
> I recently installed, Ubuntu 7.04 on my new AMD 64 pc with Asus chipset.
> Alo my monitor is View sonic VG1930wn. After installation, and online
> updates, of nvidia drivers, the required resolution of 1440x900 for this
> monitor does not appear.
> 
> Although all other things are fine as I am still new and had not
> utilised the potential heard of ubuntu. This odd problem is making me
> nervous. As the pc has vista ultimate, which was shipped with the unit
> shows brilliant colurs, on another partition, I would like ubuntu to be
> my prime os and want to get rid of vista, as I grow in confidence.
> 
> Please help me out with this how to? and do let me have the details, as
> I am totally novice with linux language please!

I also ran into this after install. Try using System-Administration-Screens
and Graphics to see if you can get the right resolution.

Jack