Nvidia has modified their driver so that it uses safe settings for the chips. This is nothing new, I have a GF5200FX which used to do 1920x1200 on a DFP without setting any special options (note, it doesn't work on Windows at all, 1600x1200 being the maximum there).
that said, I'm not sure how far Ubuntu should go to support binary-only drivers.. -- [Dapper] New nVidia 1.0.8756 graphics driver produces wrong refresh rate https://launchpad.net/bugs/38991 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
