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Libby Ellwein

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Jan 2, 2024, 12:15:03 AM1/2/24
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Unfortunately, the proprietary driver does not support high resolution during boot-up. You could uninstall the proprietary drivers, but graphics performance will not be near as good. You can remove the proprietary drivers for the Software and Updates dialog (though I would not recommend it).



1280x1024 resolution driver download

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The "Hardware Drivers" window just states NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [Recommended]. I tried Jonathon's tip about uninstalling the driver and removing the conf file, to see if it can reboot in the normal mode but it just came back into recovery mode. /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't exist.


Update:

I don't know the exact version of the Nvidia driver. The "Hardware Drivers" window just states NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [Recommended]. Also, There is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but there is a xorg.conf.failsafe which doesn't say much.

This question mentions nvidia-96. Would that be relevant in my case?


Update 3:

I tried Jorge's suggestion of nvidia-glx-185 but didn't manage to get it into 1280x1024. I then tried the version 260.19.29 linked above, but that quickly became very complicated and I ended up somehow breaking my installation (and my Windows boot as well, but I realize it's my own fault). I've now gone away from a Wubi installation and I'm writing this on a brand-new 10.10 installation on a real partition.

So, let's start over: Should I install the nvidia-glx-185 again, and then what?


I have the same graphic card and I have installed both 10.04 and 10.10 on my system and after installing the latest nvidia driver provided by Ubuntu I have full 1280x1024 75 on my HP 1702 monitor. I think that that problem is with the native settings of your Monitor i.e. Ubuntu is failing to recognize your monitor properly. You need to let ubuntu to detect your monitor so that it can set the monitor's native resolution properly.






When I plug the monitor into my windows 10 notebook (with the latest Intel drivers for HD 4600 and internal display disabled), the maximum resolution is 1280x1024. I know the maximum resolution from my notebook's vga output is higher than 1280x1024 because I can output 1680x1050 on my LCD monitor via VGA.


When I use the Intel drivers to specify a custom resolution of 1600x1200 60hz, it works, but 1600x1200 75hz fails with the error "The custom resolution exceeds the maximum bandwidth capacity".There is no option for CVT-RB (Reduced blanking) as the blanking interval is required for CRTs to function properly.


Check monitors.inf file to see if your required resolution is presentIf it is not then you can manually add it using the same syntax as previous entries, but you have to take ownership of that specific file to do so.


I recently bought some new hardware, but I'm unable to get it working in the intended way. Although my monitor has a native resolution of 1600x1200 I'm unable to select anything higher than 1280x1024. In the past weeks I did lots of tests, both on hardware and on software side. Based on the results my current assumption is that this seems to be an issue of the Intel Iris Xe graphics driver for Windows 10 or an issue with the drivers required by the USB-C / Thunderbolt ports.


I want to connect my existing monitors to the WD19 dock. These are NEC MultiSync LCD 2180UX with a native resolution of 1600x1200 and DVI input. However, I'm only able to select 1280x1024 as highest resolution in Windows, 1280x960 is offered as preferred solution (I guess due to the 4:3 aspect ratio). I have three of these monitors, but even when only one of them is connected to the dock it does not work as expected. For the sake of simplicity I did all tests with just one monitor connected.


I searched the Internet for similar reports. I found only few entries. For some there was no response or solution at all. Some others where related to issues with 4K monitors, wrongly selected refresh rate or wrong cabling (not using DualLink cables for higher resolutions, etc.). Nothing was applicable to my problem.


The monitors are working nicely with 1600x1200 resolution for many years now using my old hardware (see details below) and when checking the Graphics Control Center the EDID of the monitor is correctly read (1600x1200 is listed as supported resolution). Now I'm stuck.


Completely removing any installed driver and rebooting resulted in a fallback to the "Microsoft Basic Display Driver". However, at that moment a resolution of 1600x1200 was suddenly possible - but only one monitor was recognized and there was no 2D/3D acceleration. Few minutes later Windows auto-installed the latest Intel/Dell driver (9955) and the resolution switched down to 1280x1024.


I tried to manually add "1600x1200" as resolution in the Intel Graphics Control Center. I was able to add the entry to the dropdown list, but selecting it resulted in an error message and an automatic switchback to 1280x1024.


To make sure this is not related to a bad pre-installation of Windows by Dell, I installed Windows 10 from scratch onto an USB drive (Windows To Go). But there the behavior is exactly the same. It won't go above 1280x1024 when using any of the docks.


I finally booted a live Linux from an USB drive (Fedora 35), and with this running I was able to use 3 monitors at 1600x1200 with the WD19 dock and 2x 1600x1200 with the WD15. This was the final evidence to me that this seems to be Windows/driver related and has nothing to do with the hardware or cabling.


Tool output

Since it was requested in several other threads, I attached the reports of multiple tools to this post (Intel SSU, DxDiag and the Graphics Control Center). In some of the reports it's also visible that the monitor(s) are detected with a native resolution of 1600x1200, but I can't see any reason why it cannot be used.


I also contend that, in the cases involving dongles/hubs/docking stations that come from the majors (including Dell), *they* should be validating *their* devices to work properly, not waiting for the problems to occur and then dumping you off on Intel as they so often do. They have escalation paths into Intel that have a much, much higher priority, based upon sales volumes, than little old you coming here, by yourself, with an issue. Do you know that, in the case of laptops, you have absolutely no warranty of any kind from Intel for any of the Intel components used? Your warranty is *exclusively* from the laptop vendor - and it is the laptop vendor that *should* be providing the support. Their excuse is that it is 'usually' caused by Intel's drivers. True or not (ok, usually true; Intel's drivers are a dumpster fire), but so what? Again, they should use their escalation paths and their priorities to get a solution quickly, not dump off individuals at Intel's site.


So while you might think many base stations are junk and oversold, the fact remains they are now a necessity simply to be able to connect the laptop to the screen. It's therefore 'a little odd' to to not support what is a mandatory intermediary between laptop (and graphics driver) and screen seems, albeit I quite see the issues.


In your case, it would appear that the graphics channel from the G8 does not have the bandwidth to support these two monitors - and that is why the second monitor detected is not able to use its highest resolutions. I do not know what processor you have in this G8 nor do I know whether we are talking about a USB-C port in this G8 that supports Thunderbolt 3/4 capability or only an anemic USB capability. If it is only USB and this WD15 is also supporting USB devices, then the bandwidth of the DisplayPort channel is cut in half. If this is only a DisplayPort 1.2 channel, this would explain why the second monitor cannot be supported at its higher resolutions.


From my simply Googling, I found numerous people will Dell, HP and other laptops and the common element was always Xe, so it seemed to be a 'feature' of the driver, but you know far more about these things than I do. Thanks for your help


You may also find it useful to brush up on some openSource graphic card theory: (post#3 in particular) but in the end those are not likely the best driver for you and the 96.43.16 may be what you need.


The Link caf4926 provided may help, but you need to be very careful as the 1click install could install the WRONG driver. And if you install via the repository method you need to be certain you pick the correct rpm.


to display your entire xorg log, which will show what driver was loaded (in your case vesa, nv, or vesa for example). This command can be refined to show you just the driver information, as outlined here:


I assume you checked to see what driver was installed based on guidance given here: How to check what graphic driver is installed where in essence you can tell by looking inside the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.


OK, first before we can do anything, your probably going to have to install the Nvidia PROPRIETARY drivers in order to use your card. As your video card is extremely old, dates to like 2004, your going to need a much older driver to well, drive the card.


After restarting my computer for a update, my computer resolution has changed and I can't change it back. Not only that, but also all my apps are running a lot slower as well. This had never happened before to me.


I thought that installing virtualbox-ose-xorg-drivers package will be enough thing to get the wishful resolution (this idea turned out to be wrong for me). After installation, I replaced vesa driver to vboxvideo in my xorg.conf (which was originally built by the `hwd -xa` command):


So do both virtualbox-ose-xorg-drivers + virtualbox-ose-additions packages substitute the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run? Is there possibility to get custom resolution and all other stuff using only virtualbox-ose-xorg-drivers and virtualbox-ose-additions?


Back when I used Virtualbox... I went nuts trying to get 1280x1024 resolution to work.

The solution to get it to work was to maximize the VirtualBox window first, and then startx/set the resolution.

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