Only low screen resolution available

drivers display display-resolution

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Go to nVidia download site and follow these steps.

Once you have downloaded the driver, change to the directory containing the driver, if this is downloads run

cd ~/downloads

In order for the installer to work, you need to make it executable.

chmod +x _file_name_

_file_name_ is the file name, eg. NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.96.run

Install the driver by running

sudo sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.96.run

Or in abstract terms sudo sh ./_file_name_

One of the last installation steps will offer to update your X configuration file. Either accept that offer, edit your X configuration file manually so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used, or run in terminal

nvidia-xconfig

You can also check in Synaptic packet manager.

sudo apt-get install synaptic

On my laptop Synaptic has a choice of nVidia drivers. The one that nVidia website chooses for your card is 340, ie. the file NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.96.run for 64-bit architecture. It's present in Synaptic, the package is nvidia-340 but the one on the site is 3 days younger, so you may prefer to install that one.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

UberSteak over 1 year

Ok, I know how it sounds. I'm not that dumb. But, I have a 1600x1200 external display on a nvidia gtx 260m and the resolution wont go past 1024x768. *Ubuntu 14.04 BTW
- Admin over 8 years
  
  Are you using nVidia drivers?
- UberSteak over 8 years
  
  I'm using the default drivers when you do a fresh install.
- JoKeR over 8 years
  
  read this tutorial wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution
- Admin over 8 years
  
  Take a look at my corrected answer. mark kirby contributed to it, so it cannot fail.
- UberSteak over 8 years
  
  I did the sudo apt-get forthe nvidia-prime comment, then, when I rebooted, my machine got stuck in a login loop. I'd sign in, the screen would crash and kick me back to the login screen. I'm reinstalling Ubuntu now.
- Mark Kirby over 8 years
  
  Try driver version, 340, see tomasz answer or sudo apt-get install nvidia-340 You don't need to reinstall because of a log in loop, just post back here and I will gove instructions to fix it, nice and easy. Also don't forget to tag users like this @markkirby or we won't get notified.
Admin over 8 years

Ok. I just got The Deleter Badge.