civillian
December 15th, 2008, 01:48 PM
ust last night I installed a copy of ubuntu 8.10 from a magazine cover-disc and it installed fine (after a few worries about my hard drive, but thats another story).
This morning when I tried to install the nvidia drivers for my card with envyNG it all went a bit wrong.
First off I tried to install the drivers using envyng -g which didn't work and left me in the CLI. I rebooted to safe mode and found out that the gtk front-end for envyNG was buggy, so I tried again using the Qt front-end. This left me with a workable system again but only at the resolution of 400x300.
I went to the ubuntu driver manager and it said that I was using the latest nvdia driver which was not the recommended one, so I installed and activated the reccomended one from the ubuntu driver manager and now I'm stuck in 1024x768 and unable to use the full resolution of my monitor which is 1280x1024.
Can anyone shed any light on this issue?
My xorg.conf file reads as follows
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
Thanks in advance!
This morning when I tried to install the nvidia drivers for my card with envyNG it all went a bit wrong.
First off I tried to install the drivers using envyng -g which didn't work and left me in the CLI. I rebooted to safe mode and found out that the gtk front-end for envyNG was buggy, so I tried again using the Qt front-end. This left me with a workable system again but only at the resolution of 400x300.
I went to the ubuntu driver manager and it said that I was using the latest nvdia driver which was not the recommended one, so I installed and activated the reccomended one from the ubuntu driver manager and now I'm stuck in 1024x768 and unable to use the full resolution of my monitor which is 1280x1024.
Can anyone shed any light on this issue?
My xorg.conf file reads as follows
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
Thanks in advance!