Finally replaced my incredibly antiquated Ti 4200 with a GeForce 9600 GT, but I'm having a few problems. The main one would be that I can't see anything when I drop to terminal (the monitor shuts off)- I could when I had a spare svga monitor hooked up through an adapter, but now I'm using dual DVI monitors. Do not have an svga cable to spare at the moment. The second seems to be a doublethink problem- a good while back when this computer was a fresh install, I could have sworn I had the option for the resolution 1680x1024- this is an *essential* resolution for twinview, because my second monitor is 1280x1024, and setting this widescreen to 5:4 is just... wrong.

EDIT: Simple restart solved the terminal issue (I hotplugged the monitors). Resolution thing is still a standing issue. I have a 1050 capable monitor, but the display portion is an inch shorter than the widescreen.

If you are talking about a VT and using the Frame Buffer with the proprietary Nvidia driver, this is a known bug. It will work, than not work, than work ..... you get the picture.
1024x768 is the highest reliable resolution I've had with the binary blob. If you're not using a whole lot of 3d, perhaps you could give nouveau a shot.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/show...83#post1145683
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Nvidi...m_X_to_Console

Well higher resolutions aren't a problem, I can game in 3080x1050 if I turn down the settings a bit. The problem is just that particular resolution.

In X, the resolution is fine, I use 3360x1050. It's when switching to a virtual console (ctrl-F6) that the Nvidia blob has issues.
The virtual frame buffer has a known bug - which is what my links discuss and talk about
First sentence from one of the links
For supported resolutions in X, you can use the Nvidia control panel.