Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. After reviewing your bug description, I don't think this
is a bug. The NVIDIA binary drivers misreport the display resolution,
and this is known and documented by NVIDIA in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx-
new/README.txt.gz:
"Q. Why is the refresh rate not reported correctly by utilities that use the
XRandR X extension (e.g., the GNOME "Screen Resolution Preferences" panel,
`xrandr -q`, etc)?
A. The XRandR X extension is not presently aware of multiple display devices
on a single X screen; it only sees the MetaMode bounding box, which may
contain one or more actual modes. This means that if multiple MetaModes
have the same bounding box, XRandR will not be able to distinguish between
them.
In order to support DynamicTwinView, the NVIDIA X driver must make each
MetaMode appear to be unique to XRandR. Presently, the NVIDIA X driver
accomplishes this by using the refresh rate as a unique identifier.
You can use `nvidia-settings -q RefreshRate` to query the actual refresh
rate on each display device.
This behavior can be disabled by setting the X configuration option
"DynamicTwinView" to FALSE."
The consequence of this is that the resolution is reported as being
between 50Hz and 55Hz, when the monitor is actually being refreshed at
the correct rate.
Because of this, I am going to mark this bug as Invalid. If you feel you
are still having problems, please reopen the bug by changing the status
to 'New', and attach your X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) to
this bug report as an uncompressed attachment. In this case, also please
try running with dynamic twinview disabled as per the NVIDIA
documentation.
Thank you
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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Monitor refresh rate not changed with nvidia
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