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Jonathan.s
September 15th, 2010, 06:10 PM
Hi all
I'm new to ubuntu, and except for several small annoyances everything seems to work just fine.
One lasting, more serious annoyance is, however, that I can't seem to get ubuntu to display at 1280x1024(60 MHz). the max resolution I can get is (the somewhat odd) 1152x864, with only 50MHz.
xrandr outputs

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1152 x 864, maximum 1152 x 864
default connected 1152x864+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1152x864 50.0*
1024x768 51.0
800x600 52.0 53.0 54.0
680x384 55.0 56.0
640x480 57.0
512x384 58.0
400x300 59.0
320x240 60.0
Now, the odd thing is that the display output is simply "default" not VGA1 or something...

I followed instructions here (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-change-display-resolution-settings-using-xrandr.html), and after cvt, newmode and addmode, xrandr gives:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1152 x 864, maximum 1152 x 864
default connected 1152x864+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1152x864 50.0*
1024x768 51.0
800x600 52.0 53.0 54.0
680x384 55.0 56.0
640x480 57.0
512x384 58.0
400x300 59.0
320x240 60.0
1280x1024_60.00 (0x19c) 109.0MHz
h: width 1280 start 1368 end 1496 total 1712 skew 0 clock 63.7KHz
v: height 1024 start 1027 end 1034 total 1063 clock 59.9Hz


I then try:

xrandr --output default --mode 1280x1024_60.00

and xrandr responds with:

xrandr: cannot find mode 1280x1024_60.00

Does anyone have any idea?
This is pretty discouraging...

TIA
Jonathan

Lurker4hire
September 16th, 2010, 07:25 AM
Post your "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" file.

Jonathan.s
September 16th, 2010, 08:41 AM
Thanks for the quick reply.
Here it is:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@palmer) Fri Apr 9 10:35:18 UTC 2010

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
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: builtin, VertRefresh source: builtin
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "CRT-1"
HorizSync 28.0 - 55.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8500 GT"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "1152x864 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Jonathan.s
September 18th, 2010, 09:19 PM
bump?

Also, is there a way to mess with the icons of installed programs (goldendict for example)? I've tried its folder , the icons folder under user and under home. couldn't find a thing.

TIA
J

SeijiSensei
September 19th, 2010, 12:34 AM
Have you tried using the NVIDIA utility that is installed along with the driver? On my Kubuntu machine it's called "NVIDIA X Server Settings". DK what it's called in Gnome, but it should be pretty apparent since it should be the only program with NVIDIA in its name.