Screen resolution loop [help!]

[Michael "TheZorch" Haney]

Rashkae wrote:
> David Armour wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>  
>>     
>
> I'm thinking your monitor is providing faulty EDID information, and that
> 's screwing the driver over.
>
> I suppose you could try specifying a monitor with the displayconfig-gtk
> program.  However, i would urge trying to plug a different monitor into
> the computer... even if it's a notebook, you should be able to use an
> external display, and see if that works as expected.
>
>
>   
When I had this problem I tried both my monitors.  My desktop system now 
uses a Sun Microsystems 21" monitor and my laptop now uses a 19" Dell 
Monitor.  Neither were detected by X.org during installation and thus 
the whole 640x480 resolution limit problem.

Running displayconfig-gtk is a way to get around it, but I found that it 
did weird things to my login screen.  Basically it would only display 
the top left half of the screen, just enough to login with, and the rest 
were off screen.  That's when I tried Kubuntu and that problem didn't 
come up after I changed my monitor settings in the display resolution 
dialog under System Settings.

Would the xfix correct the problem with the login screen I mentioned?  
If it does I could recommend it to others I know who have this issue 
after correcting their resolution problems with displayconfig-gtk. 

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