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Question #77982 on grub in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/77982

    Status: Open => Answered

actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
Steve, Yes Linux should but in some case the 2 levels of functionality
differe in wild ways

For example, some wifi chips using ndiswrapper cannot perform WPA
encryption, windows will

Windows is a big private company with billions of dollar/euros/rupees/coins/whatever poured into it by their user base, in turn this allows them to hire guys and pay them a wage.
Open source has some cash but is no where near what Microsoft gets. They are usually just a bunch of guys who wrote some code and it helps other guys do stuff in their projects, hence community. Not only is their this hurdle but as the vast majority of users are windows users, companys get significantly more cash supporting windows and very little supporting Linux etc. So will plow nearly 100% resources into supporting Windows to get maximum return. Sadly if you do not use WIndows and the company has turned its back on anything else (ATi is a classic example of this) then support for cards would come only from the community on a best attempt basis. ATi have since took their heads out of their asses and their support is getting a lot better.

So in short, Yes it "should" work, but unfortunately due to greedy
companies, a lot of stuff simply doesn't work and some stuff will kinda
work. Other stuff will work. In Windows a lot of stuff will work due to
years of support but they are now looking at linux due to the craze that
Ubuntu has caused (Despite what is at its core has been the same for
years)

If you want 1440x900 resolution, you can add it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

here is mine for reference. I use 1024x768:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildd@crested)  Sun Feb  1 20:25:37 UTC 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: xconfig, VertRefresh source: xconfig
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "CRT-0"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 6150"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "1024x768_85 +0+0; nvidia-auto-select +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

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