Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nvidia-96
Observed on a Fujitsu-Siemens W600 (iP4 on i865 mainboard) with Geforce MX440 AGP board fitted: Nouveau as the new default supports this hardware at FullHD native resolution. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx shows a top-right icon suggesting to use the "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 96) [Recommended] - Tested by the Ubuntu developers - License: Proprietary" (cf. System/Administration/Hardware Drivers). These will only work properly if desktop effects are changed to None in System/Preferences/Appearance/Visual Effects anyway (for demonstration of the slowness and errors you'll experience before they are off, try full-screen previewing e.g. the Helios screensaver from apt-get install rss-glx), so "no eye-candy" should probably be the default. As soon as the system is rebooted to use the recommended proprietary driver, the resolution drops from the monitor's native one, to a maximum of 1024*768 IIRC, apparently with no way to increase it through System/Administration/NVIDIA X Server Settings (nothing higher offered there). The following two lines will have to be added to the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf in order to make the nvidia-96 driver recognize and use the native resolutions of current 21.5-28 inch screens (or LCD TVs), i.e. 1920*1080 or 1920*1200: Option "ModeValidation" "NoMaxPClkCheck" Option "UseEdidFreqs" "on" ...but no user can be expected to find let alone know this (so just that I happened to know how to work around the issue does not necessarily resolve this bug, let alone for future versions). https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/575605 may be related. ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- WUXGA/FullHD resolutions are lost after switching from Nouveau to recommended proprietary Nvidia driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584010 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp