Right, the last post about nvidia drivers on Ubuntu and my Samsung telly? Rubbish. It didn't work. Well it sort of did. When I let Ubuntu take care of installing the nvidia drivers, it installed the nvidia-legacy drivers, as I guess my card is old. This caused problems when I tried to build XBMC for linux. The problem being that it wouldn't compile.
So, I removed everything vaguely nvidia related, rebooted, then installed this nifty utility, Envy.
Basically it takes care of getting the nvidia drivers straight from the nvidia site, installs them and all the prequistes. Dead good. However after the reboot, I was back to 800x600. Arse.
So, I went to the The XFree86 Modeline Generator site, which generates modeline entries for you xorg.conf. The instructions are there, and using the information from my telly's owner's manual, I finally got Ubuntu at the max resolution for my TV AND built and more importantly, ran XBMC. Woohoo!
