Help with resolution settings

[Michael Haney]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I always used to download the latest and greatest nVidia drivers from
> nVidia and then do the '"sh" shuffle' to have them compiled and installed.
>
> Since I've gone Ubuntu I just let the System>Administration>Hardware
> Drivers option do the installation for me - the only choice I need to
> make here is which one of the 3 suggested drivers to choose.
>
> Has worked here every time.
>

I run into the exact same issue Vic Main is having every time also.  I
have an 8x AGP Nvidia Geforce FX 5600 w/256MB DDR-RAM.  Before version
7.10 the screen resolution window had a tab for manually choosing your
monitor.  That was taken out and never put back, and since then I've
been having the problem.  So hat a lot of other people ... a whole lot
of other people, and for some reason Canonical is pretty much sticking
their heads in the sand ignoring the problem.

Anyway, I kept my old xorg.conf file with the Nvidia driver settings
and copy & paste them into the new xorg.conf files of each new
installation after installing the Nvidia drives.  I have to manually
change my resolution after each boot using the Nvidia Configuration
Tool, but I don't often reboot unless its necessary.

The problem is really annoying and its disappointing that Canonical is
allowing it to persist like this.  The feature to manually choose your
monitor needs to return.

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