If you want to use all the possible resolutions your GPU and display support, rather than the standard limited list provided by the VESA driver, you're going to have to use one of the specific drivers, either nvidia or nouveau.

I'd say it's probably more worth your time to solve the mouse and keyboard problem than to try to do advanced graphical setups without the advanced drivers. Many of us use nvidia without mouse and keyboard issues, I'm pretty sure it isn't a problem caused by the driver, instead something caused by the configuration.

What I would suggest (and how I install nvidia myself) is this:

1) Remove any xorg.conf file you have currently
2) Install the 'nvidia' port
3) Run 'depmod -a; modprobe nvidia'
4) Run 'Xorg -configure' to generate an xorg.conf.new
5) REMOVE EVERYTHING from that file EXCEPT for the 'Device' section. An example would look like this:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

6) Save this as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-device.conf.

That is the *only* xorg config file I use and things work properly.

Matt


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