Help-Using Linux on nVidia based MB.

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Hello everyone,
I want to use Linux on my new Asus motherboard(M2N68-AM). It has onboard nvidia7 gfx. But the max resolution supported is 800x600@60Hz in Linux. My previous motherboard Asus A7N266-VM(onboard nvidia2 gfx) was supporting higher resolutions than this.
I know Linux conflicts with nVidia chipset based MB. Can this problem be solved by downloading drivers from the software repository? Also when I loaded OpenSolaris, it fully detected onboard gfx card and supported higher resoultions. But I don't want to use OpenSolaris... Just Ubuntu!
Your help appreciated.

Have you installed the latest drivers?
If so, follow the below method..

In the terminal, type
sudo nvidia-settings
and navigate to 'X Server Display Configuration'.
On the right side, choose your desired resolution and 'apply' it.
Now, click on 'Save to X Configuration File'. It says that you are merging the modification with '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'. Save it.

And also see that all possible resolutions are specified in xorg.conf.

If you don't have nvidia drivers installed, do following commands-

Code:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new
sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings

After installing,

Code:

sudo nvidia-settings

now here, you can configure your nvidia gfx resolution.

Thanks all. I will check this later.
I was going to dump Ubuntu and use Mandriva2009 instead since it was easily detecting my gfx card.

blueshift said:
But I don't want to use OpenSolaris... Just Ubuntu!
Your help appreciated.

Ok, so as some guy who has contributed to opensolaris project i would love to know why you would not want to use opensolaris.. Any specific reasons?

P.S: I am probably very late in asking this question as the tread is almost an year old.. but still