Need Help Configuring Display in Ubuntu

[Krohnny]

For some reason I can't seem to set my resolution to 1920x1080 in Ubuntu. After the fresh Ubuntu install the first thing I do is get the latest drivers from nvidia for my gtx 960 and install them. After I do that I get slightly higher resolution options in display settings but not my monitors native 1080p. In Ubuntu My monitor shows as "Unknown" and in windows it's "generic non-pnp" which I guess is a driver issue? In windows I can set my resolution to 1080p just fine, and in the driver section of the properties in device manager it says the driver was provided by microsoft which I assume is why it works on windows but not Linux. Is there any way I could fix this? I've already reinstalled Ubuntu twice and even installed Mint and Ubuntu MATE to see if there was any difference and there wasn't. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[mcnumpty23]

see if this helps

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2017/04/custom-screen-resolution-ubuntu-desktop/

 

[Krohnny]

see if this helps

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2017/04/custom-screen-resolution-ubuntu-desktop/

I tried to do that multiple times following the steps exactly and got errors after trying to add the mode to HDMI-0 which is what I have my display connected to.

 

[mcnumpty23]

which version number of ubuntu?

 

[Krohnny]

which version number of ubuntu?

I've tried a bunch of different releases but I literally JUST finished installing and updating my graphics driver on the 16.04.2 LTS release. I tried the 17 release but that version gave me even more problems, I couldn't even connect to the Internet on it. Right now it shows my monitor as unknown display and the max resolution I can set is 1360x768.

 

[mcnumpty23]

and if you have integrated graphics as well as a graphics card

try disabling the integrated graphics

if that doesnt work something here may help theres a few options there including how to use an earlier version of the nvidia drivers

https://askubuntu.com/questions/760934/graphics-issues-after-while-installing-ubuntu-16-04-16-10-with-nvidia-graphics

 

[mcnumpty23]

havent used linux in ages

but even when it showed my monitor as unknown display i could get 1080p

so think the issue is likely to do with the nvidia driver though i am not a linux expert though have played around with it in the past

 

[Krohnny]

havent used linux in ages

but even when it showed my monitor as unknown display i could get 1080p

so think the issue is likely to do with the nvidia driver though i am not a linux expert though have played around with it in the past

I don't have any integrated graphics and I'm not convinced it's a graphic driver issue, I'm almost certain it has to do with my monitor and the fact that Linux can't seem to figure out that it's even capable of 1080p. In windows it says the driver for my monitor, which displays as a "generic non-pnp" monitor, is provided by Microsoft. If there's a way I could get a similar Linux compatible driver installed I have a feeling that would fix my problem but I have no idea how to go about this.

UPDATE: It WAS my monitor and not my graphics drivers after all! After about 10 hours of troubleshooting and digging through documentation and forums I figured out it was my monitors EDID information causing the problems. I had to run nvidia-xconfig and edit the file with my resolution and the all important "UseEDID" "FALSE" line per the instructions here http://. Now I have my native resolution AND MORE listed in the display settings.