This did not help because the monitor settings box only goes up to 800x600 and I need 1024x768.
Also, even though the "Spider > Preferences > monitor settings" persisted in the menu, nothing
happened when clicked.
It's too bad that such a seemingly good distro would have monitor resolution problems with
nvidia since it's such a common graphics card. And why did the monitor settings persist in menu,
but no longer worked?
It's problems like these that give linux a bad name. Every linux system I've ever tried has been
this way. I'm not stupid, but I'm no guru either. I don't like windows, but at least it doesn't
give me endless headaches trying to get everything straightened out. Ubuntu has conquered most of
the problems and installs properly, but it's too big.
It should already be included that my nvidia driver could run. Don't anyone bother responding unless you can get me a pkg that all I have to do
is install it and my screen resolution becomes adjustable to the full limit of it's capabilities without me having to perform extensive guru manipulations to get it to work. I simply don't have the time.
My nvidia graphics info from within windows 7:
System Information
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit (Service Pack1)
DirectX runtime version: 11.0
Graphics card info
GeForce 9200
Driversion: 275.33
DirectX support: 10
CUDA Cores: 8
Graphics clock: 500 MHz
Processor clock: 1200 MHz
Memory clock: 200 MHz (400MHz data rate)
Memory interface: 64-bit
Total avail graphics 1919MB
Dedicated video memory: 256MB DDR2
System video memory: 64MB
Shared system memory: 1599MB
Video BIOS version: 62.77.3A.00.01
IRQ 22
Bus: FPCI