I have decided to workaround the problem. I installed my old ATI Radeon card from my old (dead) PC. Then I installed the Zorin 6.1 distribution. I now have the correct screen resolution and full control of the screen i.e. in "Displays" you can see the make & manufacturer of the screen and is switches off when Zorin shuts down.
I am convinced that a major part of my problem was that my nVidia card does not have a VGA interface and my screen only accepted a VGA interface therefore I had to by a DVI to VGA converter plug. It may be that this blocks the ability to control the screen ( Only a guess). Zorin 6.1 is based on 12.04 which also seems to resolve the driver issues. I will stick with Zorin from now on. I hope you get to the bottom of the issues in 12.10. Thanks for the help so far. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1078598 Title: Incorrect screen resolution with NVIDIA drivers Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: My Samsung screen resolution is 1920x1080. Ubuntu 12.10 under system settings displays it only allows four options 1360x768 being the highest. My video card is a G84(GeForce8600GT). There are 4 additional drivers available the all work but don't change the resolution. The nouveau driver caused the screen to flicker evert few seconds. I also looked in NVIDEA X Server settings but again the highest resolution is 1360x768 (it says NVIDEA Driver version: 304.4). I'm not sure which is leading - System settings/Display or NVIDEA X Server settings. The sceen interface is VGA which i have had to convert to DivX(?)with a converter plug because the card does'nt have a VGA port. Its a real shame because I have gone for it and wiped out Windows! Hooray! Any clues welcome! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/1078598/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
