Nvidia

[piratesmack]

Have you installed the Nvidia driver?

If not, go to Administration>Hardware Drivers
If nothing shows up there, go to Applications>EnvyNG and install it from there


If that doesn't help, here's more thing you can try:

Open a terminal and run:

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sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

That will open xorg.conf in a text editor, locate the "screen" section. It should look something like:

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Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
EndSection

Change it to something like:

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Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
    Depth 24
    Modes "1024x768" 800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

*replace "1024x768" 800x600" "640x480" with the resolutions you use*
*The first resolution you list will be default*


Then save, close, and reboot

[Etoja]

Larry, launch terminal, type "sudo displayconfig-gtk" - it will start a GUI interface where you would be able to choose proper resolution and refresh rate.
I would appreciate if you could let us know if you succeed in this.
Btw, very nice motherboard you have

[Etoja]

Larry, that's strange. GUI should show you options to choose any monitor other than plug n play. In my case I just selected a monitor with a required resolution and refresh rate (mine was not in the list). Than, I restarted computer, and installed driver via EnvyNG. And it worked. Try to deinstall the Nvidia driver and start again.

Please, don't be frustrated, I have just finished a month long struggle with the geforce 6200 under Linux Mint and know how upsetting it might be ... I can imagine how many folks were put off Linux trying to set up their graphics card and monitors...

[Etoja]

Hm... a year later... Larry, I hope you are still running Mint - I had a break for a while, but returned back to Mint as soon as version 7 was released. What a treat! That horrible mess with monitors, resolution and refresh rate gone! Everything installed without any problems - very intelligently without any hitch. Finally after 12 years of trying to jump to Linux I am running the version which I really like.