Ubuntu 12.10 on Acer Aspire S3: screen resolution

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Published on 2012-11-09T10:51:37Z Indexed on 2012/11/09 11:21 UTC
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I'm new to linux and recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 alongside Windows on my laptop. Initially 3D screen effects (i.e., Docky) were not working and I tried different things like installing and reinstalling nvidia-current, compiz etc... Now I think I messed up the display drivers completely... Although all the effects are now working, I can't get any screen resolution other than 640x480. Can anyone please tell me how to find out exactly what's wrong and ways of fixing it?

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