1080p Screen resolution problem after 10.04 to 12.04 update

Question

I have a Samsung LCD 40" with a NVidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 Card. I recently upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04 and the best resolution I can get is 1360x768. I've tried the propietary drivers available on the repository

kmod:nvidia_current kmod:nvidia_173_updates kmod:nvidia_current_updates kmod:nvidia_96 kmod:nvidia_96_updates kmod:nvidia_173

I've also downloaded latest from NVidia's Web, version: 295.40. But still no luck. With Nouveau driver, I can only get 1024x768. I know there is no problem with my hardware (video card, cable and monitor), I was using it perfectly on 10.04. Can anybody suggest something else I could try, to get my 1920x1080 resolution back? Thanks in advance. Here are some more information, that I got reading other similar posts on askubuntu.

$ lspci | grep VGA 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2)

$ xrandr xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1360 x 768, maximum 1360 x 768 default connected 1360x768 0 0 0mm x 0mm 1360x768 50.0 52.0* 1024x768 51.0
800x600 53.0 54.0 55.0
680x384 56.0 57.0
640x480 58.0
576x432 59.0
512x384 60.0
400x300 61.0 62.0 63.0
320x240 64.0

Answer 1

I activated the Nvidia experimental drivers in Ubuntu 12.04 while in Unity 2D, then restarted and logged into Unity 3D and everything worked fine. Every time I tried activating it from Unity 3D it failed. I have a Nvidia 6150SE driver.

Answer 2

You might try to add a mode to xrandr:

xrandr --newmode "192x1080_59.90"  106.29  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 901 904 932  -HSync +Vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA 1920x1080_59.90
xrandr --output VGA --mode 1920x1080_59.90*