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Today I decided to begin my grand Linux adventure
I use Ubuntu 9.10 regularly at school, so I decided I would use Kubuntu 9.10 as my home distribution so I can get both the KDE and GNOME experience. The computer I installed it on uses a 90nm 3.0GHz P4 w/ 1.5GB DDR333 and has a 8600GT.
I installed it as a dual-boot with WinXP, and everything worked just fine. I installed the newest packaged Nvidia driver from the repo (version 180?) and that went without a hitch. The problem came up when I went into the display settings to try to set the resolution to my CRT monitor's native resolution of 1280x1024 @ 75 Hz. In the settings, the maximum resolution I could set it to was only 1024x768 @ 60 Hz
I looked in both the Nvidia control panel and Kubuntu's own display settings to no avail. I googled around and tried some things in the terminal that were supposed to fix the problem, but I ended up borking the Kubuntu install, so I formatted the partition and reinstalled.
This time, I thought I'd try the newest, non-packaged driver straight from Nvidia (195.36.15). I successfully installed it, (which taught me quite a bit) but now I have the same problem, only worse. The max resolution I can get is now 640x480 @ 50Hz
I've tried a couple more supposed "fixes" and none of them do anything. Can some local Linux guru help me out here?

I installed it as a dual-boot with WinXP, and everything worked just fine. I installed the newest packaged Nvidia driver from the repo (version 180?) and that went without a hitch. The problem came up when I went into the display settings to try to set the resolution to my CRT monitor's native resolution of 1280x1024 @ 75 Hz. In the settings, the maximum resolution I could set it to was only 1024x768 @ 60 Hz

I looked in both the Nvidia control panel and Kubuntu's own display settings to no avail. I googled around and tried some things in the terminal that were supposed to fix the problem, but I ended up borking the Kubuntu install, so I formatted the partition and reinstalled.
This time, I thought I'd try the newest, non-packaged driver straight from Nvidia (195.36.15). I successfully installed it, (which taught me quite a bit) but now I have the same problem, only worse. The max resolution I can get is now 640x480 @ 50Hz

I've tried a couple more supposed "fixes" and none of them do anything. Can some local Linux guru help me out here?