Screen resolution loop [help!]

[David Armour]

Rashkae <ubuntu <at> tigershaunt.com> writes:

> > Thanks to Leonard and Rashkae for their replies. Here's what I tried 
> > System>Admin>Hardware Drivers>
> > 	- lists two options, *both with red light radio buttons*, i.e. not  > 		*
'highlight' Nvidia accelerated (96)[1] [Recommended]
> > 		* select Activate
> > soft reboot
> > hard re-boot
> > recovery mode
> > 	black screen...
<snip> 
> You really really shouldn't have to do all that.

!!! No kidding. But it helps to hear someone else say it. Something's messed 
up, fer shur. :c) Still not sure what 'it' could be, at this point though.
 
> If you run xfix, then start Ubuntu, enable the Nvidia binary driver..
> what happens?  At this point, your display should be working properly.

All that stuff I mentioned above was stuff that happened *after* I ran xfix, 
and resumed booting. The Ubuntu menu under System>Admin *shows* Hardware
Drivers, as expected, but selecting the options offered doesn't seem to have any
observable
effect.

> You can change resolution to all those your monitor says it supports by
> using the gnome Screen Resolution applet.
> 

Sadly, no. The maximum resolution offered remains 800x600. The xorg.conf file 
in my working Ubuntu Hardy machine (workhorse3) doesn't contain anything much
different looking from the xorg.conf file on the messed up machine 
(workhorse5). Color me confused.

At least, it's getting to be time for supper!