Monitor Won't Display At Native Resolution

Hi

Whenever I connect my monitor to my laptop, it won't display the video at the native resolution. The monitor works fine and displays at the native resolution in Windows 7, but on Ubuntu, it just gives stripes and the image "dances." If I lower the resolution of the monitor, video displays just fine. I've tried the monitor on my netbook and it works. Both the netbook and the laptop i'm connecting have an Intel GMA 950 graphics card. I've tried Kubuntu, Arch Linux, Mint, and Fedora and they all have the same result, whereas it continues to work fine in Windows 7.

Here's a video: http://www.twitvid.com/SZFVM

 

The GMA950 requires the i915 software I believe. Not sure why all the distros you listed can't run it, though... it's odd.

 

When I run xrandr this is what comes up.

Code:

VGA1 connected 1920x1080+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 531mm x 299mm
   1920x1080      60.0*+
   1280x1024      75.0     60.0  
   1152x864       75.0  
   1024x768       75.1     60.0  
   800x600        75.0     60.3  
   640x480        75.0     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  
LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 331mm x 207mm
   1280x800       60.0*+
   1024x768       85.0     75.0     70.1     60.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        85.1     72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        85.0     72.8     75.0     59.9  
   720x400        85.0  
   640x400        85.1  
   640x350        85.1  
TV1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

When I choose 1280x1024 at the 75 hertz refresh rate it does something similar, but if I bump it down to 60, the image is visible.