nvidia driver 4 tiny screens on one monitor?

[moparisthebest]

This happened after ubuntu pushed an nvidia graphics update about a week ago, on upgrade I booted up into this:

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/1250/20100624163005.th.jpg (http://img691.imageshack.us/i/20100624163005.jpg/)

Obviously I had to take this picture with a camera, since a screenshot only showed one screen. It's perfectly usable like this, except that it's too small to read.

I of course have tried 'sudo nvidia-xconfig', and a minimal xorg.conf:


Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection


Along with purging and reinstalling all of the nvidia packages numerous times. I'm currently running on the VESA driver, which sucks. My chipset is a 9200M, but like I said, it worked perfectly before the last upgrade.

In all my years of using linux and kubuntu, I've seen and fixed numerous nvidia driver errors, but I've never seen one this strange, usually it will run or not run.

[VH-BIL]

have you tried the nVidia driver from "http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606". I just installed the new "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.35" and it is running nicely!

[moparisthebest]

No, I haven't tried any official nvidia packages yet, I thought they wouldn't work with 10.04 due to the new way drivers are handled.

edit:
Here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes#Incompatibility%20with%20nVidia%20ups tream%20driver%20installer
Is that still the case?

[VH-BIL]

This is how I got it working...

For The Driver:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-nvidia-drivers-manually-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx.html

Fix the plymouth boot screen for the new nVidia driver:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-the-Big-and-Ugly-Plymouth-Logo-in-Ubuntu-10-04-140810.shtml

Hope this helps you out!

[moparisthebest]

Thanks for the help, I got it working. I guess the current nvidia driver in the ubuntu repos is just messed up at the moment.

[VH-BIL]

Did you get the new nVidia driver working? or through the repos?