Public bug reported:
Monitor: ViewSonic G90f
Video Card: GeForce 6800 GT AGP
I normally work at a screen resolution of 1400x1050 @ 85 Hz. I went to
play UT2004, and when I set the screen resolution to 1600x1200, it
crashed. Looking into the situation a bit further, I noticed that the
"Screen Resolution" tool under System -> Preferences had no idea what
the modes my monitor supported were. It was offering modes like
1400x1050 @ 50 Hz.
My initial reaction was to go fix the xorg.conf file. I calculated the
correct modelines and put exactly the modes that I wanted in the config
file. With the "nvidia" driver, the X server *completely ignored what I
said in the xorg.conf file*. There weren't even any error messages about
it in the log - it just pretended that the modelines and resolution list
weren't there. That took me about 40 minutes to figure out. The "nv"
driver read my settings fine.
Then I remembered that "nvidia-settings" existed. That worked great,
allowing me to set the 1600x1200 @ 75 Hz mode that I wanted. Starting in
that mode, I am able to get UT2004 to run in that mode no problem.
Here's where it gets really annoying: nvidia-settings is the *only*
thing that can correctly change display modes. The "Screen Resolution"
tool has no idea what modes exist, and changing modes in UT2004 causes
it to crash.
** Affects: nvidia-settings (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
** Changed in: nvidia-settings (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: None => nvidia-settings
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Can only change resolution through nvidia-settings
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116480
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