Have been looking for a fix for this since two days ago and after a good number of hours searching I finally decided to make a post about this. So as the title says in the NVIDIA settings panel there is no option for any resolution above 1920x1080 for my 2560x1440 monitor. Under additional drivers I have tried both proprietary NVIDIA drivers(331.113 & 331.113-updates), as well as Nouveau display drivers. Under NVDIDA x server settings I've tried changing the ViewportIn to 2560x1440 instead of 1920x1080, It does make the things on screen smaller (to scale as if it actually was the right resolution) but does not increase the resolution. Also my monitor is plugged into my card using the HDMI connector. I appreciate any help and would be incredibly grateful to anyone whom could help me solve this issue. Thanks!
EDIT!! About halfway down the page!
Here is the output from xrandr:
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Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
DVI-I-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 600mm x 340mm
1920x1080 60.0*+ 59.9 50.0 30.0 25.0 24.0 60.0 50.0
1680x1050 60.0
1440x900 59.9
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1280x960 60.0
1280x800 59.8
1280x720 60.0 59.9 50.0
1152x864 75.0
1024x768 75.0 70.1 60.0
800x600 75.0 72.2 60.3 56.2
720x576 50.0
720x480 59.9
640x480 75.0 59.9 59.9
480x576 50.0
480x480 59.9
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)
Here is the ouput for lspci | grep VGA
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK110 [GeForce GTX 780] (rev a1)
Please let me know if there is anything else you'd like me to type into the console in order to resolve this issue, or to shed more light on what the problem is!
EDIT START
Okay!! Something really funny happened while I was following another users forum post. This is what I tried:
max@luxBox:~$ cvt 2560 1440 60
# 2560x1440 59.96 Hz (CVT 3.69M9) hsync: 89.52 kHz; pclk: 312.25 MHz
Modeline "2560x1440_60.00" 312.25 2560 2752 3024 3488 1440 1443 1448 1493 -hsync +vsync
max@luxBox:~$ xrandr --newmode "2560x1440_60.00" 312.25 2560 2752 3024 3488 1440 1443 1448 1493 -hsync +vsync
max@luxBox:~$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-D-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 597mm x 336mm
1920x1080 60.0* 50.0 59.9 30.0 25.0 24.0 30.0 24.0
1920x1080i 60.1 50.0 60.0
1680x1050 59.9
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1440x900 59.9
1280x960 60.0
1280x800 59.9
1152x864 75.0
1280x720 60.0 50.0 59.9
1440x576 50.0
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
1440x480 60.0 59.9
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
720x576 50.0
720x480 60.0 59.9
640x480 75.0 66.7 60.0 59.9
720x400 70.1
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
2560x1440 (0x303) 241.5MHz
h: width 2560 start 2600 end 2632 total 2720 skew 0 clock 88.8KHz
v: height 1440 start 1443 end 1448 total 1481 clock 60.0Hz
2560x1440_60.00 (0x304) 312.2MHz
h: width 2560 start 2752 end 3024 total 3488 skew 0 clock 89.5KHz
v: height 1440 start 1443 end 1448 total 1493 clock 60.0Hz
max@luxBox:~$ xrandr --addmode HDMI-1 2560x1440_60.00
After this command my screen adjusted and now looks like it's 2560x1440. One would think I'd be set, but no! For whatever reason it's all just scaled to look like it's 1440p, it's still just as blurry as it was at 1080p. And the blurriness is not my monitor, my windows 8.1 OS looks nice and crisp! If anyone has any suggestions they'd be more than little welcome!