Help with resolution settings

[Michael Haney]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> My wife and I have been running Linux distros for years. We are now
> running Ubuntu 10.04.1.
>
> On her computer she has the FX 5500 nVidia card.
>
> Ubuntu recognised this card and also the LCD monitor (Viewsonic).
>
> She is getting the correct resolution of 1680x1050 with the nVidia
> 173.14.22 driver, which Ubuntu's Hardware Drivers installed.
>
> HOWEVER - note this! - for some reason I am unable to get this to work
> with the digital connection, only the analog connection works correctly!
>

I'm not using digital, just analog VGA.

> Nothing to do with Canonical.
>
> If I recall the way things worked in the past months, as you are aware
> nVidia is a proprietary driver, and not open source, and nVidia decided
> that they will provide a driver which would work with any Linux distro -
> which is why Canonical, or any other Linux distro, has nothing to do
> with the situation.
>

Sorry, that's wrong.  This problem affects users with ANY graphics
card with Ubuntu compatible 3D acceleration drivers (ie; AMD-formerly
ATI, Nvidia, Intel, Matrox, etc., etc.).  So, its not the graphics
card drives at all, and the lack of the ability to manually select the
monitor settings makes it much worse.

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