[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu Video driver Resolution

[Howard]

  Thanks for the suggestions. I now have time to get back to my video 
problem.
I'll post an update on what I get with apt-get -f, sudo 
nvidia-xsettingss, and xrandr, which I don't think will help.
The GTX280 card is very capable. So I don't think that is an issue.

Howard

On 10/9/2012 5:35 PM, Mike Rice wrote:
> Even with the nvidia drivers installed (and not working) use xrandr to 
> get a picture of your card's capabilities.
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> C. Mike Rice
> KF7VZZ at gmail.com
> dolo724 at yahoo.com
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> *From:* Dave Sisley <dsisley at sonic.net>
> *To:* talk at nblug.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 9, 2012 2:45 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu Video driver Resolution
>
> On 10/09/2012 02:35 PM, Howard Schnirman wrote:
> > I was lazy and just clicked the OK default to my Ubuntu 12.04 update 
> manager. So it started downloading and installing around 750mb. Well 
> it failed somewhere along the way. Afterwards I can only boot to 
> recovery mode, and am stuck with a display size of 1280 x 720. My Dell 
> S2330mx monitor is capable of 1920 X 1080.
> >
> > I'm running an Nvidia GTX 280 card. I tried unintalling through 
> synaptic and reinstalling, and manually installing nvidia's 
> proprietary driver. No luck yet. Any ideas before I decided to do a 
> clean install. Sorry everthing's on one partition, so I'll have to 
> reinstall my LAMP stack, Wordpress, phpmyadmin again.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Howard
> Howard:  I feel your pain, but at least you can see your desktop! I've 
> been burned more than once by the nvidia drivers, where I have the 
> Proprietary drivers installed, but apt-get installs a bad driver from 
> the repositories...  I think I've finally gotten apt-get (same thing 
> as synaptic, essentially) to stop that, but I've also trying to keep 
> notes about what I've done to fix this.
>
> One thing I recall is that after running the script provided by 
> Nvidia, I also run 'sudo nvidia-xsettings' to get my dual-monitor set 
> up to work.  Not sure if that helps, but I thought I'd offer it...  
> good luck!
>
> -dave.
>
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