Monitor's Native Resolution Not An Option

Asked by Ross

Hello,

I recently installed Ubuntu on my desktop computer that uses an NVIDIA graphics card. I have tried using both the xorg and proprietary drivers for my card that are included with Ubuntu, but I still am unable to attain the 1920x1080 resolution both my monitor and video card support. I would appreciate if anyone could shed some light on how I can fix this resolution.

Thank you

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; xrandr

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Ross (rosseby) said :
#2

*-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GK106 [GeForce GTX 660]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
       resources: irq:47 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f7000000-f707ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Linux Desktop 3.16.0-36-generic #48~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 15 13:11:28 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
DVI-I-1 connected primary 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768 60.0*
   800x600 60.3 56.2
   848x480 60.0
   640x480 59.9
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-D-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

You are using the open source driver. Try:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Reboot to test. Use TAB and ENTER to accept the license if asked

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Ross (rosseby) said :
#4

This allows me to use the 1360x768 resolution, but unfortunately not 1920x1080 which I know for a fact is supported by my system.

Here is the output now:

*-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GK106 [GeForce GTX 660]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f7000000-f707ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Linux Desktop 3.16.0-36-generic #48~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 15 13:11:28 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1360 x 768, maximum 16384 x 16384
DVI-I-0 connected primary 1360x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768 60.0 +
   1360x768 60.0* 59.8
   1152x864 60.0
   800x600 72.2 60.3 56.2
   680x384 60.0 59.8
   640x480 59.9
   512x384 60.0
   400x300 72.2
   320x240 60.1
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Thank you for your help

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
#5

Maybe you can define 1920x1080 as a new resolution,

the commands might be

xrandr --newmode 1920x1080_60.00 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode DVI-I-0 1920x1080_60.00
xrandr --output DVI-I-0 --mode 1920x1080_60.00

or you can add the resolutions to xorg.conf

for both see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution

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