How to fix screen resolution?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday, December 30, 2011 16:06:33 Rick wrote:
> I was running ubuntu server 10.10 and recently ran the upgrade to 11.x.
> After running the update process and rebooting, all I get is a blank screen
> with my monitor displaying "Input not supported". This usually means that
> the screen resolution is set to one the monitor does not understand.
> Everything was running fine before the upgrade, so I don't understand why
> the resolution seems to have been changed. 

What kind of card do you have?   They seemed to have screwed up the nvidia 
usage by using some of their own code.

I had fits with several machines on 11.10  (and also 11.04)  until I loaded up 
the nvidia proprietary drivers.   Strongly recommended.  Solved a lot of 
problems for me.