On Jul 22, 10:37 am, lalawawa wrote:
> Hi, I just brought up my new computer on ubuntu 7.
>
> System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution only goes up 1024x768. My
> monitor is 1600x1200, and Windoze was able to drive that just fine.
> My graphics card is an NVidia GeForce 6150 SE.
>
> In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf it said
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Device "Generic Video Card"
> Monitor "Generic Monitor"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 1
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> ...
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> I changed '"1024x768"' to '"1600x1200" "1024x768"' on each "Modes"
> line and rebooted. The system still wouldn't let me choose the higher
> resolution.
> Then I changed the "Device" line to "NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE Video
> Card" and tried to reboot, and the system couldn't bring up the
> graphics, I had to reboot in safe mode and restore the xorg.conf file.
> I'm really wondering if "Generic Video Card" and "Generic Monitor" are
> limiting me, and what I should change them to.

I just solved this on my own. First I had to download the nvidia-glx-
new package, rebooted, which didn't work. I looked at the X logfile,
and it looked like the device was found at PCI:0:13:0 but the
xorg.conf file was looking for it at PCI:0:5:0, so I edited the
xorg.conf file and rebooted again. I had to manually edit the
xorg.conf to include the 1600x1200 resolution again, rebooted, and
viola! 1600x1200 resolution!