Video driver help

[Jace]

I have a Nvidia Gforce2 mx/400
Screen res is 640x 400
Meaning the driver needs to be loaded. Any help
Keep in mind this is the newbie section and I am a newbie...


Thanks, looks like I am one step closer to never having to buy another MCSE book

[crane]

Originally Posted by Jace I have a Nvidia Gforce2 mx/400 Screen res is 640x 400 Meaning the driver needs to be loaded. Any help Keep in mind this is the newbie section and I am a newbie... Thanks, looks like I am one step closer to never having to buy another MCSE book

Try using apt to install nvidia drivers then hit ctrl>alt>backspace to restart X

Nvidia Install - Ubuntu Guide

What part of the deep south are you from?

[Jace]

Gulf Shores area. Thanks I am a real newbie to this. Can you explain a little more indepth? Meaning how to use the terminal to install a driver. Let me read into the link you posted. It will probaly have my anser there. Again thanks

[Jace]

ok heres what I did....went to the nvidia driver install link. Followed it . copied and pasted each line into the terminal. Looked like it worked. Went to applications and there is Nvidia setup. Pushed ctrl + alt+ backspace and a screen come up that I could not get out of. Newbie I tell ya. So just like Microsoft cure all, I rebooted. Oh yea I also pasted the text file and hit save into the window that came up. Did I not save it into the right directory??? Thanks

[Jace]

Alright wife is screaming " feed me".. So I must go. I am still @ a very low screen res. Any help would be great.After I shove a cheese burger down her throat I will be right back, why cant they just understand....

[i-tech]

hi ;
try this open synaptic and "search" for nvidia-glx mark and install it. this wil help you i guess. if not we'll think of something else
enjoy!

[Jace]

Alright I have 1 min. to get this right. I did this and it asked for my ubuntu cd. it looked like it installed it. Still when I go into screen res. it want let me change it. When I go into app> nvidia setting there is nothing there to set screen res.....THANKS

[Jace]

root@LINUX:/home/jason # sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
nvidia-glx is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@LINUX:/home/jason # sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
nvidia-settings is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@LINUX:/home/jason # sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backuproot@LINUX:/home/jason # sudo nvidia-glx-config enable

A backup of xorg.conf has been stored as:
/var/backups/xorg.conf.2005-05-11-20:16:57.
If the new configuration will not work you will be able to
revert the changes simply using this command:
cp /var/backups/xorg/xorg.conf.2005-05-11-20:16:57 /etc/X11/xorg.conf


Warning: your X configuration has been succesfully changed.
In order to take full advantage of the changes, X needs to
be restarted.

root@LINUX:/home/jason # sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/NVIDIA-Settings.desktop

(gedit:9019): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

break

[Desktop Entry]
Name=NVIDIA Settings
Comment=NVIDIA Settings
Exec=nvidia-settings
Icon=
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;System;


Saved this to /usr/share/applications

[Jace]

Hey I rebooted the system and now when I go under applications>system tools> nvidia settings is there. Here the kicker...under system> prefs> screen res. It will not let me change the res. Still stuck @ 640x480.....Thanks for the support.

[panickedthumb]

You may have to edit the xorg.conf manually to add in the screen res lines.

My screen section looks like this:

Section "Screen"
		Identifier	  "Default Screen"
	    Device		  "NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 460]"
		Monitor		 "Generic Monitor"
		DefaultDepth	24
		SubSection "Display"
			    Depth		   1
			    Modes		   "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
		EndSubSection
		SubSection "Display"
			    Depth		   4
			    Modes		   "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
		EndSubSection
		SubSection "Display"
			    Depth		   8
			    Modes		   "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
		EndSubSection
		SubSection "Display"
			    Depth		   15
			    Modes		   "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
		EndSubSection
		SubSection "Display"
			    Depth		   16
			    Modes		   "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
		EndSubSection
		SubSection "Display"
			    Depth		   24
			    Modes		   "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
		EndSubSection
EndSection