screen resolution

[chris]

On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 16:54 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 08:28 +1200, chris wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 15:22 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 19:01 +1200, chris wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > The base install, with either programe, with out the nvidia 173 driver
> > > > gives a res of 1064x 640.  Yuk!
> > > > 
<snip>
>  Worse comes to worse, you may
> have to install the nvidia bin file straight from nvidia, but that would
> be my ~very last~ resort. It doesn't install library stuff in the
> "standard" Ubuntu locations. I know, I'm weeping WITH you. <chuckles>

I have to face fairly major surgery in the next week or so, so I am not
sweeting on this one.  It is a spare machine that I thought I would set
up as a backup system in case of hardware failure on my other machines.
Purely as an email/newsgroup collector.

I am still pursuing the thought that the beast is not getting the edid
information from the monitor.  This idea is supported by the fact that I
can install mint/ubuntu 10... onto a crt monitor with no trouble, and
the full range of resolutions.

Current thought is to install the system using the crt monitor, then set
the resolution using the 173 driver, write out to xorg.conf then hook up
the new monitor and see what happens,
Will get back to you when I have gone through that process.
Cheers Chris