[nvidia-glx] nvidia proprietary driver defaults to 800x600 resolution

Thanks for your report! Can you list some additional details about your system, for example, the output of "lspci -v". What video card do you have?

This is my pc configuration:
Pentium III 800

RAM 256Mb

Scheda video GeForce 6200 128mb point of view

This is the requested output:

andrea@ubuntu:~$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host
bridge (rev 03)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 803b
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
        Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP
bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
        Memory behind bridge: cd000000-cfdfffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: cff00000-e3ffffff

00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev
01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=8]
        [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=1]
        [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=8]
        [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=1]
        I/O ports at d800 [size=16]

00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev
01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
        I/O ports at d400 [size=32]

00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1
(rev 07)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs SBLive! Player 5.1
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
        I/O ports at d000 [size=32]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev
07)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs Gameport Joystick
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        I/O ports at b800 [size=8]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Sigma Designs, Inc. REALmagic Hollywood
Plus DVD Decoder (rev 02)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        Memory at cc800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) (prog-if 10
[OHCI])
        Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Unknown device 0035
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
        Memory at cc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) (prog-if 10
[OHCI])
        Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Unknown device 0035
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        Memory at cb800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) (pr...

There's few threads with similar issues floating around ubuntuforums.org. Have you tried using Option "UseEDID" "0" in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?

Looks very similar to bug #91292 and other nvidia resolution bugs...

bertoldic:
Does using nv to find the appropriate refresh ranges then explictly adding them to xorg.conf as described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/91292/comments/6 help?

Setting to needsinfo pending reply from bertoldic.

Please attach your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and /var/log/Xorg.0.log. There is a possibility that rather than be a nvidia issue, this could simply be another case of bug 3731.

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