Issues with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 13.04 and Nvidia GTS 450

[Silviu_Caragea]

Hello,

I receintly done some updates on my Ubuntu 12.04 instalation and now I cannot use a resolution bigger than 1360 x 768. I tried to reinstall Ubuntu again and I have the same problem. Also on 13.04 or Cent OS I have similar issues.

Something happened because I used Ubuntu 12.04 without any issues on this hardware configuration with 3 months ago.

I also tried to add a new resolution with xrandr but is failing. Also I tried to pick another driver but the problem was not solved.

Any suggestions ?

[papibe]

Hi Silviu_Caragea. Welcome to the forum

Could you post the result of these commands?

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga

xrandr

xvidtune -show

lsmod | grep -iE 'nvidia|nouveau'

Regards.

[Silviu_Caragea]

In the past I could use without any issue 1920x1080 (the same resolution that I'm using it on Windows 7).

[papibe]

Thanks.

Let's see what version of the driver is installed, and what meta modes you have available. Could you post the result of these commands?

dpkg -l | grep nvidia

nvidia-settings --version

xrandr -q --q1

Regards.

[Silviu_Caragea]

Thanks.

Let's see what version of the driver is installed, and what meta modes you have available. Could you post the result of these commands?

dpkg -l | grep nvidia

nvidia-settings --version

xrandr -q --q1

Regards.

dpkg -l | grep nvidia

ii nvidia-304 304.88-0ubuntu0.0.3 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-319 319.32-0ubuntu0.0.1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-319-updates 319.32-0ubuntu0.0.1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.44.2 Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-settings-304 304.88-0ubuntu0.0.3 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-settings-319 319.32-0ubuntu0.0.1 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-settings-319-updates 319.32-0ubuntu0.0.1 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

nvidia-settings --version

nvidia-settings: version 304.88 (buildd@roseapple) Fri Aug 9 00:37:47 UTC 2013
The NVIDIA X Server Settings tool.

This program is used to configure the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver.
For more detail, please see the nvidia-settings(1) man page.

Copyright (C) 2004 - 2010 NVIDIA Corporation.

xrandr -q --q1

SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh
*0 1360 x 768 ( 460mm x 260mm ) *50 52
1 1024 x 768 ( 346mm x 260mm ) 51
2 1152 x 864 ( 390mm x 292mm ) 53
3 800 x 600 ( 270mm x 203mm ) 54 55 56
4 680 x 384 ( 230mm x 130mm ) 57 58
5 640 x 480 ( 216mm x 162mm ) 59
6 512 x 384 ( 173mm x 130mm ) 60
7 400 x 300 ( 135mm x 101mm ) 61
8 320 x 240 ( 108mm x 81mm ) 62
9 1024 x 576 ( 346mm x 195mm ) 63
Current rotation - normal
Current reflection - none
Rotations possible - normal left inverted right
Reflections possible - X Axis Y Axis

[papibe]

Thanks.

I see that the driver doesn't read higher resolution than 1360x768. If you are sure that your monitor supports higher resolutions, this is what I recommend:

1. Clean the house:
   
   
   
   • There are 2 drivers installed (from dpkg), so I would uninstall them both and make a clean install again. To do that close all your graphic applications and press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to go to text mode. Login in there and purge all Nvidia packages except nvdia-common:
     

     sudo apt-get purge nvidia-304
     sudo apt-get purge nvidia-319
     sudo apt-get purge nvidia-319-updates
     sudo apt-get purge nvidia-settings-304
     sudo apt-get purge nvidia-settings-319
     sudo apt-get purge nvidia-settings-319-updates

   • Then reconfigure nvidia-common:
     

     sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-common

   • Now restart your machine:
     

     sudo reboot

2. Install the current driver.
   
   
   
   • Go to text mode again:
     

     sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
     sudo nvidia-xconfig

   • Restart again:
     

     sudo reboot

   • That should do it.
     
     
3. Upgrade your driver if necessary.
   
   
   
   • If you are still experiencing problems, you may try an upstream driver. First upgrade to the swat's ppa:
     

     sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get upgrade
     sudo nvidia-xconfig

   • Reboot again.
     
     
   • Then if that doesn't work either, there's another ppa with bleeding-edge versions:
     

     sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get upgrade
     sudo nvidia-xconfig

   • Restart again.

I hope that helps, and tell us how it goes.
Regards.

[Silviu_Caragea]

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF106 [GeForce GTS 450] [10de:0dc4] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:3503]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia

xrandr

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1360 x 768, maximum 16384 x 16384
DVI-I-0 connected 1360x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
1024x768 60.0 +
1360x768 60.0* 59.8
1152x864 60.0
800x600 72.2 60.3 56.2
680x384 119.9 119.6
640x480 59.9
512x384 120.0
400x300 144.4
320x240 120.1
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

xvidtune -show

"1360x768" 72.00 1360 1408 1440 1520 768 771 781 790 +hsync -vsync

lsmod | grep -iE 'nvidia|nouveau'

nvidia 9425761 38