Some Hardy problems

[Jake90]

Hi, I just upgraded to Hardy and I'm having some problems if anyone can help me out it would be greatly appreciated.
First off I should mention that I think all these problems are because of missing drivers. I am a newbie so it may be an obvious answer or something but I tried envy and it says it's installed. Also I have 2 hardys and their recovery modes in my grub menu, the first one won't load and the second one at first wouldn't load either. Then after starting in the terminal I typed in start x and after much flashing it started in low graphics mode. I kept having this problem until I ran envy but it still only starts in low graphics mode and I have the following 2 problems.
Ok problem number one is that Hardy can't seem to find/use my video card. When I go into restricted drivers it's checked and in use but I can't enable compiz and the graphics look horrible. I also think it has the wrong screen size. The desktop seems to stretch out of the screen.
My second problem is that there is no sound whatsoever. I have no speaker on the top right of the screen and when I press the button to raise the volume a speaker flashes in middle of the screen but otherwise nothing happens.
As of now I am in middle of downloading the torrent to do a clean install, maybe that will help.
Thanks a lot, any help is greatly appreciated.

[kestrel1]

As for your first problem look at this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766846&page=1 It may help somewhat.

[Jake90]

As for your first problem look at this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766846&page=1 It may help somewhat.

Thanks, but that didn't work. I might not have explained the problem clearly. The problems is with the graphics card, it won't read it right. The screen is possibly a side effect of this and anyway it is a very small problem.

[Tatty]

Are you sue the driver is not loaded? It sounds as though it is, but its just not configured correctly.

What card do you have? Please post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

The easy way to check is to load a terminal and type glxgears Then every 5 seconds it will output an fps to your terminal, if it is in the 1000's then it almost certainly is using the correct driver.

[Jake90]

Are you sue the driver is not loaded? It sounds as though it is, but its just not configured correctly.

What card do you have? Please post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

The easy way to check is to load a terminal and type glxgears Then every 5 seconds it will output an fps to your terminal, if it is in the 1000's then it almost certainly is using the correct driver.

Thanks, That's possible how do I configure it?
I have an Nvidia Geforce (I forgot the exact number and I'm not sure how to check.)
Here's my xorg.conf file.
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by failsafeDexconf, using
# values from the debconf database and some overrides to use vesa mode.
#
# You should use dexconf or another such tool for creating a "real" xorg.conf
# For example:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Boardname "vesa"
Busid "PCI:0:18:0"
Driver "vesa"
Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
Vendorname "Hewlett-Packard"
Modelname "HP D2832 HP 500 15-inch Monitor"
Horizsync 30.0-70.0
Vertrefresh 50.0-120.0
modeline "640x400@85" 31.5 640 672 736 832 400 401 404 445 -hsync +vsync
modeline "640x350@85" 31.5 640 672 736 832 350 382 385 445 +hsync -vsync
modeline "720x400@85" 35.5 720 756 828 936 400 401 404 446 -hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@56" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@72" 50.0 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@75" 49.5 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@85" 56.3 800 832 896 1048 600 601 604 631 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@60" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1152x768@54" 64.995 1152 1178 1314 1472 768 771 777 806 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x854" 80.0 1280 1309 1460 1636 854 857 864 896 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x768@60" 80.14 1280 1344 1480 1680 768 769 772 795 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x720@60" 74.48 1280 1336 1472 1664 720 721 724 746 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x800@75" 107.21 1280 1360 1496 1712 800 801 804 835 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x768@75" 102.98 1280 1360 1496 1712 768 769 772 802 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x720@50" 60.47 1280 1328 1456 1632 720 721 724 741 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x800@60" 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1440x900@75" 136.49 1440 1536 1688 1936 900 901 904 940 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1440x900@60" 106.47 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1600x1024@60" 136.36 1600 1704 1872 2144 1024 1025 1028 1060 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1680x1050@60" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087 -hsync +vsync
Gamma 1.0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Defaultdepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 1680 1050
Modes "1440x900@75" "1440x900@60" "1280x800@60" "1600x1024@60" "1280x720@50" "1680x1050@60" "1280x768@75" "1280x800@75" "1280x720@60" "1280x768@60" "1280x854" "1152x768@54" "800x600@60" "800x600@85" "800x600@75" "800x600@72" "800x600@56" "720x400@85" "640x350@85" "640x400@85"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0
Inputdevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "GLcore"
Load "v4l"
EndSection
Section "device" #
Identifier "device1"
Boardname "vesa"
Busid "PCI:0:18:0"
Driver "vesa"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "screen" #
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Defaultdepth 24
Monitor "monitor1"
EndSection
Section "monitor" #
Identifier "monitor1"
Gamma 1.0
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

glxgears
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual

[kestrel1]

Have you got the Nvidia X server settings program installed? If not go to the terminal & type:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings
Once it is installed it should be under the system/administration section or type:
sudo nvidia-settings
I am not sure if the above work in Kubuntu, but worth a try.

[Jake90]

All right, clean install was a success, but I still have the video card problem, plus now my wireless card won't turn on.It did take care of the sound though

[Digger78]

Hey jake,

Can you post the outputs from the following commands

ifconfig

iwconfig

iwlist scan

cat /etc/network/interfaces

[Jake90]

All right all problems solved thanks everyone for your help.
here's how I did it. First I did a clean install, which left me with 2 problems, one the wireless card didn't work and the graphics card didn't work. Thanks to PeterJS for showing this to me, I followed this guide to fix the wireless problem http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=575750
After that I realized that my problem with the video card was that it couldn't get the files needed to work since it wasn't connected to the web.
Thanks again
Jake