Kimm
April 24th, 2007, 11:43 AM
WARNING NOTE OF DOOM: This works for ME, there is no guarantee that it will work for you! (actually, it is only a theory that it should work for most other prople...)
You should also understand that this will limit you to one screen resolution/update frequenzy (the others will be there, but they may cause you to "revert back"
This might also only work in XFCE/GNOME/KDE (point 4)
1. Make a backup of your xorg.conf
This is an important step, since you might want to revert back to the old one, if the NVIDIA drivers are fixed in the future!!
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup
2. Install nvidia-settings
sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings
3. Run NVIDIA settings as root
Click on "X Server Display Configuration" and plainly change whatever is wrong with your X Server (in my case, it was the Update Frequenzy, unfortunently people are having different problems with the X Server, so I cant go in any more closely on what you should do). When you are satisfied, click on "Save to X Configuration File", this will make sure that the changes you have made are permanent!
4. Only if you are not using an English keyboard (like me):
Your keyboard layout will now be english, to change this you need to go into the configuration manager of your Desktop environment and change the layout to whatever corresponds to your language (in my case, using XFCE, I had yo use the GNOME configuration tool).
5. Only if you are using TV-Out (and the TV has turned black and white):
You need to add these lines:
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-G"
to the device section that corresponds to your TV. In my case, it looks like this:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-G"
BoardName "GeForce FX 5500"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
THE END
I understand that I might have been a bit "unclear" about some of the instructions, but it is not very easy to be clear when different people experience different problems!
I hope this can help someone anyway :)
You should also understand that this will limit you to one screen resolution/update frequenzy (the others will be there, but they may cause you to "revert back"
This might also only work in XFCE/GNOME/KDE (point 4)
1. Make a backup of your xorg.conf
This is an important step, since you might want to revert back to the old one, if the NVIDIA drivers are fixed in the future!!
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup
2. Install nvidia-settings
sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings
3. Run NVIDIA settings as root
Click on "X Server Display Configuration" and plainly change whatever is wrong with your X Server (in my case, it was the Update Frequenzy, unfortunently people are having different problems with the X Server, so I cant go in any more closely on what you should do). When you are satisfied, click on "Save to X Configuration File", this will make sure that the changes you have made are permanent!
4. Only if you are not using an English keyboard (like me):
Your keyboard layout will now be english, to change this you need to go into the configuration manager of your Desktop environment and change the layout to whatever corresponds to your language (in my case, using XFCE, I had yo use the GNOME configuration tool).
5. Only if you are using TV-Out (and the TV has turned black and white):
You need to add these lines:
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-G"
to the device section that corresponds to your TV. In my case, it looks like this:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-G"
BoardName "GeForce FX 5500"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
THE END
I understand that I might have been a bit "unclear" about some of the instructions, but it is not very easy to be clear when different people experience different problems!
I hope this can help someone anyway :)