Question #77982 on grub in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/77982
Status: Open => Answered
actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
Steve, Yes Linux should but in some case the 2 levels of functionality
differe in wild ways
For example, some wifi chips using ndiswrapper cannot perform WPA
encryption, windows will
Windows is a big private company with billions of
dollar/euros/rupees/coins/whatever poured into it by their user base, in turn
this allows them to hire guys and pay them a wage.
Open source has some cash but is no where near what Microsoft gets. They are
usually just a bunch of guys who wrote some code and it helps other guys do
stuff in their projects, hence community. Not only is their this hurdle but as
the vast majority of users are windows users, companys get significantly more
cash supporting windows and very little supporting Linux etc. So will plow
nearly 100% resources into supporting Windows to get maximum return. Sadly if
you do not use WIndows and the company has turned its back on anything else
(ATi is a classic example of this) then support for cards would come only from
the community on a best attempt basis. ATi have since took their heads out of
their asses and their support is getting a lot better.
So in short, Yes it "should" work, but unfortunately due to greedy
companies, a lot of stuff simply doesn't work and some stuff will kinda
work. Other stuff will work. In Windows a lot of stuff will work due to
years of support but they are now looking at linux due to the craze that
Ubuntu has caused (Despite what is at its core has been the same for
years)
If you want 1440x900 resolution, you can add it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
here is mine for reference. I use 1024x768:
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (bui...@crested) Sun Feb 1 20:25:37 UTC 2009
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: xconfig, VertRefresh source: xconfig
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "CRT-0"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 6150"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "1024x768_85 +0+0; nvidia-auto-select +0+0;
1024x768 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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