This bug happened to me on Jaunty only. On Hardy, I could get a higher
resolution using displayconfig-gtk and choosing the right monitor from
the list. I have an AOC Spectrum 7VlrA, which I could find on the list.

But on Jaunty things got much worse because displayconfig-gtk isn't
available. I tried several times to get a resolution higher than
800x600. The most weird thing is that the highest resolution available
with the nvidia drivers installed was below that: only 640x480.

Nvidia-settings as root doesn't show better options and nvidia-xconfig
tool isn't successful on recognizing the hardware and can't write a good
xorg.conf.

The only workaround I could do after so many tries was running a Hardy
live-cd session and installing the nvidia drivers. After that I copied
the xorg.conf and the ~/.nvidia-settings-rc on a USB drive and used on
my jaunty install. This way I can get resolutions higher than 800x600.

** Attachment added: "my actual xorg.conf got from hardy live-cd"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30994586/xorg.conf

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Nvidia FX 5200 doesn't work above 800x600 resolution
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322870
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