cannot modify screen resolution & nvidia driver problem

[cnaeus]

Hi, Im using lubuntu 11.04, and my problem is that I cannot configure my sreen resolution by the built-in utility in lubuntu 11.04. Whether I choose to save settings or to apply them, nothing happens... then I tried to install the nvidia drivers - but it comletely killed the system. The desktop environment failed to load after the installation, even the lubuntu logo became an unreadable bunch of black and white lines... then it gave some lines of error message, I think but the text was completely unreadable. So I had to restore the xorg.conf file to failsafe defaults & delete the nvidia driver. It was the official, recommended driver by the way. So I'm stuck here, and I cant change the screen resolution with the default utility or the nvidia driver...
any help, please?
thank you

[cnaeus]

This problem appeared as it has something to do with the nouveau driver being pre-installed. So, I simply purged nouveau

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sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

and installed nvidia driver afterwards. For some reason it solved my problem