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    Question Graphic Card Configuration

    Hi people,
    At the office we have a couple of desktop machines and I've installed Ubuntu in both of them.
    Everything works, but the graphic card.
    Code:
    oscar@Mephistopheles:~$ sudo lspci | grep -i vga
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
    oscar@Mephistopheles:~$
    • I've installed the Nvidia restricted driver, but the resolution is really poor
    • When I go to Nvidia configuration and change to the nice resolution, if I save the changes in the xorg.conf, after restart the borders of windows don't appear and terminals and menus are just white.
    • Try envy-gn package but got same behaviour.


    Does anybody get a novell idea? (I don't care if it is a manual configuration of the xorg.conf file)

    btw, the nvidia package is the 96, not the new ones 177 not 180.

    Thank you so much!
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    Re: Graphic Card Configuration

    Quote Originally Posted by dox_drum View Post
    Hi people,
    At the office we have a couple of desktop machines and I've installed Ubuntu in both of them.
    Everything works, but the graphic card.
    [CODE]oscar@Mephistopheles:~$ sudo lspci | grep -i vga
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
    [...]behaviour.[/LIST]

    Does anybody get a novell idea? (I don't care if it is a manual configuration of the xorg.conf file)

    btw, the nvidia package is the 96, not the new ones 177 not 180.

    Thank you so much!
    This looks like a problem I was having on an older system with the Geforce MX 440. Please refer to my Post #37 on this page. I think it will help:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1313280&page=4
    Thanks,
    Ken
    Linux is really for everyone.

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    Re: Graphic Card Configuration

    Quote Originally Posted by zman58 View Post
    This looks like a problem I was having on an older system with the Geforce MX 440. Please refer to my Post #37 on this page. I think it will help:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1313280&page=4
    Hi zman58, Do you have the Nvidia driver installed?
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    Smile Re: Graphic Card Configuration

    Hey zman!
    I modify my xorg.config file as you suggest, and additionally installed the NVIDIA driver.
    Although I got the right resolution of the monitor, the 3D effects are not working... Have you get them work?

    Code:
    oscar@Mephistopheles:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf 
    
    Section "Monitor"
    	Identifier "SyncMaster"
    	Vendorname "Samsung"
    	Modelname "551v"
    	HorizSync 30-97
    	VertRefresh 50-160
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
    	Identifier	"Default Screen"
    	Monitor "SyncMaster"
    	DefaultDepth	24
    	Option	"AddARGBGLXVisuals"	"True"
    	SubSection "Display"
    		Depth		24
    		Modes		"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    	EndSubSection
    EndSection
    
    Section "Module"
    	Load	"glx"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
    	Identifier	"Default Device"
    	Driver	"nvidia"
    	Option	"NoLogo"	"True"
    EndSection
    This is my xorg.conf file!

    Thank you again.
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