Help Please Resolution Problem !!

[Benjotter]

Hello,

This is my first post on here folks I'm a serious Newb to the world of Ubuntu I have previously Owned mainly windows machines.

After a little research I decided to give Ubuntu a try and I have to say Kudos to the developers this system is amazing
I was getting seriously hacked off with all the BS involved with my win7 Pc so here I am.

Basically my install went smooth my sound and wifi worked out of the box and after a little messing I managed to download an Nvidia Gfx driver for my card using the additional drivers app native to Ubuntu, But i still have a few problems I'm struggling to fix the main one being my monitor is a Hanns G hz194 native resolution is 1366x768 but unfortunately for some reason the max resolution available to me is 1024x768 and it just looks a little misty allthough it is still fully functional.
Hopefully someone can direct me down the right path and hopefully help me solve this issue.

[JC Cheloven]

Hi, and welcome

Please, open a terminal, type in

xrandr -q

press enter, selecct the output using the mouse, copy it (use the menu, edit-copy), and paste it here. Thank you.

[Benjotter]

Hi and thanks.
My native res for the monitor is 1366x768 60hz

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1024x768 50.0*
800x600 51.0 52.0 53.0
680x384 54.0 55.0
640x480 56.0
512x384 57.0
400x300 58.0
320x240 59.0

[LinuxFan999]

What version of the NVidia Graphics driver do you have?

[realzippy]

obsolete since post #6

[Benjotter]

Hi just found that in nvidia setting resolution of 1360x768 is available much crisper but still not right and screen is off centre. Resolution is 1366x768 in windows 7?...

Driver is 270.41.06



Thanks

Ben

[Benjotter]

Lol I have no idea how to edit that sorry I'm very new to terminal

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 270.41.06 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-07.nvidia.com) Mon Apr 18 15:15:12 PDT 2011

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 270.29 (buildd@roseapple) Fri Feb 25 14:43:24 UTC 2011

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 GT 220"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "1024x768_60 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Thanks in advance

[JC Cheloven]

Ben: simply don't miss Realzippy's advice. He's probably most awesome guy ever, regarding problems with monitors. If I were you, I'd feel relieved with him around.
EDIT: oops too late, you already answered.

[dino99]

let the kernel doing its job without distturbing it with proprio config, open a terminal and run:

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then reboot

[Benjotter]

@ Jc Cheloven ... Did I miss something Realzippy gave me no advice ? all i read was obsolete since post 6# and iI didnt really understand it.

@ Dino 99 ... Followed your steps no luck at all.

Sorry if i sound a bit dumb folks I really am very new to the world of linux.

Thanks Ben