I know this has been touched on by a lot of different threads by a lot of different people, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to fix it.
I'm on a duel boot Windows 8/Ubuntu system and have recently changed my monitor. I am using proprietary drivers and my graphics card is a Nvidia GeForce 660 Ti, the new monitor I am using is a VX2025wm (click here to view the manual).
I know that the monitor works on it's native resolution, because when booting on Windows 8 it automatically adjusts to 1680x1050. I'm not sure if it's worth noting or not, but the old monitor would view GRUB on a higher resolution by default, while this one continues to use low resolution until booted into Windows 8.
I'm really at my wits end, I'm not really used to Ubuntu and I don't have a ton of experience with Linux in general. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I've included my xorg.conf file
xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Razer Naga"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Razer Lycosa"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "VS10859 ViewSonic Widescreen"
VendorName "ViewSonic"
ModelName "DFP-0"
# DisplaySize 433.44 270.9
HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
ModeLine "1680x1050_60.00" 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089
Option "PreferredMode" "1680x1050_60.00"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "GTX 660 Ti"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 660 Ti"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Primary Screen"
Device "GTX 660 Ti"
Monitor "VS10859 ViewSonic Widescreen"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "1680x1050_60 +0+0; nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Primary Screen"
InputDevice "Razer Naga" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Razer Lycosa" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
dkms status
. Have you tried installing an experimental one in the "Additional Drivers" system application?