After installing 10.04 on my desktop (homebrew with Asus motherboard), the system came up with only 1024x768 resolution. The display controls offered no way to set it higher (I want 1280x1024).
I tried using Hardware Drivers to correct the problem by installing a different driver than the original one (whatever that was). When I activated the NVidia accelerated drivers (v173), the situation got worse: the maximum resolution dropped to 640x480. I tried using nvidia-current but that did not help.
I also tried blacklisting the following, based on a post:
vga16fb
nouveau
rivafb
nvidiafb
rivatv
That made no difference.
It seems that there are three sets of video drivers floating around: the proprietary ones from Nvidia, the nonproprietary ones that come with Kubuntu, and nouveau. I'd prefer to avoid proprietary drivers but will use them if there's no alternative. And there are lots of posts on the problems that nvidia has under 10.04 with various proposed solutions, but I still haven't found anything that works to raise the resolution to 1280x1024. Most of the posts are for Ubuntu rather than Kubuntu; it might be that this is a Kubuntu-specific problem. It's also unclear whether I should attempt to excise nouveau (supposedly an open-source replacement for the proprietary nvidia drivers) or, to the contrary, use nouveau and remove all the nvidia drivers.
Any help would be appreciated, and may be useful for other people besides me. From the amount of net traffic on this subject, it's clear that I am not alone in my difficulties.
I tried using Hardware Drivers to correct the problem by installing a different driver than the original one (whatever that was). When I activated the NVidia accelerated drivers (v173), the situation got worse: the maximum resolution dropped to 640x480. I tried using nvidia-current but that did not help.
I also tried blacklisting the following, based on a post:
vga16fb
nouveau
rivafb
nvidiafb
rivatv
That made no difference.
It seems that there are three sets of video drivers floating around: the proprietary ones from Nvidia, the nonproprietary ones that come with Kubuntu, and nouveau. I'd prefer to avoid proprietary drivers but will use them if there's no alternative. And there are lots of posts on the problems that nvidia has under 10.04 with various proposed solutions, but I still haven't found anything that works to raise the resolution to 1280x1024. Most of the posts are for Ubuntu rather than Kubuntu; it might be that this is a Kubuntu-specific problem. It's also unclear whether I should attempt to excise nouveau (supposedly an open-source replacement for the proprietary nvidia drivers) or, to the contrary, use nouveau and remove all the nvidia drivers.
Any help would be appreciated, and may be useful for other people besides me. From the amount of net traffic on this subject, it's clear that I am not alone in my difficulties.
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