New Ubuntu 8.04 won't let me increase screen resolution above 800x600

[Tasc0]

I just upgraded to it. I had 7.10. After I rebooted the computer I had the message of working in a "very low" resolution. I enabled my video card driver, rebooted again and nothing happens.

I've been using Ubuntu for over a month, so I'm pretty a newbie to it.

Any reply would be appreciated and thanks in advance.

Alternate solution:
Make a clean install.

[Pumalite]

Post:
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Tasc0]

Post:
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Here it is:


# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by failsafeDexconf, using
# values from the debconf database and some overrides to use vesa mode.
#
# You should use dexconf or another such tool for creating a "real" xorg.conf
# For example:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Boardname "NVIDIA GeForce 7 Series"
Busid "PCI:2:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Screen 0
Vendorname "NVIDIA"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
Vendorname "Plug 'n' Play"
Modelname "Plug 'n' Play"
modeline "640x480@60" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -vsync -hsync
modeline "640x480@72" 31.5 640 664 704 832 480 489 491 520 -vsync -hsync
modeline "640x480@75" 31.5 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -vsync -hsync
modeline "800x600@56" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@72" 50.0 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@75" 49.5 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@60" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
modeline "832x624@75" 57.284 832 864 928 1152 624 625 628 667 -vsync -hsync
modeline "1024x768@75" 78.8 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1024x768@70" 75.0 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
modeline "1024x768@60" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
modeline "1152x864@75" 108.0 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x1024@75" 135.0 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x960@60" 102.1 1280 1360 1496 1712 960 961 964 994 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x1024@60" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x960@75" 129.86 1280 1368 1504 1728 960 961 964 1002 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1400x1050@60" 122.61 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1051 1054 1087 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1600x1200@65" 175.5 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1600x1200@60" 162.0 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
Gamma 1.0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Defaultdepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 1600 1200
Modes "800x600@72" "800x600@75" "800x600@56" "800x600@60" "640x480@75" "832x624@75" "640x480@72" "1024x768@75" "640x480@60" "1024x768@70" "1024x768@60" "1152x864@75" "1280x1024@75" "1280x960@60" "1280x1024@60" "1280x960@75" "1400x1050@60" "1600x1200@65" "1600x1200@60"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "v4l"
EndSection
Section "device" #
Identifier "device1"
Boardname "NVIDIA GeForce 7 Series"
Busid "PCI:2:0:0"
Driver "nv"
Screen 1
Vendorname "NVIDIA"
EndSection
Section "screen" #
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Defaultdepth 24
Monitor "monitor1"
EndSection
Section "monitor" #
Identifier "monitor1"
Gamma 1.0
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

[Pumalite]

Try changing the driver from 'nv' to 'nvidia'

[Tasc0]

Try changing the driver from 'nv' to 'nvidia'
Nothing happens.

[Pumalite]

Try downloading an appropriate driver from the Nvidia site and install it through a Virtual Terminal using the appropriate kernel. Install:
sudo aptitude install build essential.

[Tasc0]

I just downloaded the driver, but I can't install it. I also tried running the command you gave me, but I really don't understand nothing. Sorry.

[bigken]

try system/administration hardware drivers

[Tasc0]

try system/administration hardware drivers
The video card is detected and enabled (in use). But I still have the problem.

[Tasc0]

I just tried installing the driver like it says on the NVIDIA drivers page:
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run and I get this error message:



ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before
installing. For further details, please see the section INSTALLING
THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver
download page at www.nvidia.com.


I couldn't find anything useful in that README.

[Reg Editor]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=775119

post number 7

there's a link to an article that helped me to change the resolution

[ansicplusplus]

Hy, try
gksudo displayconfig-gtk. This opens the configuration dialog gutsy used to have. It lets you select your monitor and graphics card.

Yours, ansicplusplus

[Pumalite]

You can stop the xserver with:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
sudo sh ,etc. etc
startx, or:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

[Tasc0]

You can stop the xserver with:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop


When I run that, the computer reboots and freezes. Any other way to stop that thing so I can install the driver?

[Tasc0]

Hy, try
gksudo displayconfig-gtk. This opens the configuration dialog gutsy used to have. It lets you select your monitor and graphics card.

Yours, ansicplusplus
I get that "manager" in the error message I mentioned in the first post. I pick the proper driver, click "test" and nothing. Save it, nothing again.

[Tasc0]

nvidia-installer.log:

nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Fri May 2 23:21:06 2008

option status:
license pre-accepted : false
update : false
force update : false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
precompiled interfaces : true
no ncurses color : false
query latest version : false
OpenGL header files : true
no questions : false
silent : false
no recursion : false
no backup : false
kernel module only : false
sanity : false
add this kernel : false
no runlevel check : false
no network : false
no ABI note : false
no RPMs : false
no kernel module : false
force SELinux : default
no X server check : false
force tls : (not specified)
X install prefix : (not specified)
X library install path : (not specified)
X module install path : (not specified)
OpenGL install prefix : (not specified)
OpenGL install libdir : (not specified)
utility install prefix : (not specified)
utility install libdir : (not specified)
doc install prefix : (not specified)
kernel name : (not specified)
kernel include path : (not specified)
kernel source path : (not specified)
kernel output path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp mirror : ftp://download.nvidia.com
RPM file list : (not specified)

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> The file '/tmp/.X0-lock' exists and appears to contain the process ID '5891'
of a runnning X server.
ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before installing.
For further details, please see the section INSTALLING THE NVIDIA DRIVER
in the README available on the Linux driver download page at
www.nvidia.com.
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
'/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions
on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

[confused57]

Maybe this will help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=596875

[antipepsiinc]

I'm having the same issues and nothing on here is helping me too.

My xorg is still the same as it was when I had 7.10.

I tried starting Nvidia's settings manger, and it told me I wasn't using the nvidia driver. Nvidias driver is installed, xorg is configured to use it, and ubuntu's driver utility says im using it. Maybe this is a hint?

[cooltuyul]

i have the same problem!

[Tasc0]

Maybe this will help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=596875
That seems to be more complicated, at least for me.

I also tried plugging my monitor into the motherboard, but I don't get any signal.

[Pumalite]

Listen to confused57; those are precise instructions to resolve your problem.

[Tasc0]

Listen to confused57; those are precise instructions to resolve your problem.

Ok, when I tried to install the driver I get an error about "libc header files". That I need to install those files.

[Pumalite]

Try this:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
sudo aptitude install build-essential

[Tasc0]

Ok, now I get this error:

-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for
your kernel.
-> Performing CC sanity check with CC="cc".
-> Performing CC version check with CC="cc".
-> The CC version check failed:

The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.1) does not exactly match the
current compiler (gcc 4.2). The Linux 2.6 kernel module loader rejects kern
el modules built with a version of gcc that does not exactly match that of t
he compiler used to build the running kernel.

If you know what you are doing and want to ignore the gcc version check, sel
ect "No" to continue installation. Otherwise, select "Yes" to abort install
ation, set the CC environment variable to the name of the compiler used to c
ompile your kernel, and restart installation

[Tasc0]

When I run uname -r I get this:

2.6.22-14-generic

I have to install this from Synaptic?

[Pumalite]

Post:
uname -a

[Tasc0]

Linux ********* 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux


* is the computer name.

[Pumalite]

That your kernel and you can use my command in post # 23 to install headers.

[Tasc0]

I tried sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` and sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -a` and I can't install nothing.

sudo aptitude install build-essential is done.

[Pumalite]

Headers might be in the build-essential package. I'm not sure. Try again.

[Tasc0]

I get the same "kernel" error.

[Pumalite]

Did you compile your own kernel?

[Tasc0]

Did you compile your own kernel?
I don't know how to do that.

[Pumalite]

Time to do a clean install it seems.

[Tasc0]

Want to tell me why you think that?

[Pumalite]

I think your problem has no solution, but that's just I. Wait for someone wiser or a staff member to come up with an answer that I do not have.

[Tasc0]

You think I should make a 8.04 clean install? I'm asking because maybe I'll have the same problem.

[Pumalite]

That; we don't know because you haven't done a clean install yet. I can tell you that I have 4 Hardies working in different hardware, but with Nvidia cards all of them and they are all doing fine. I think it's the best OS I've seen. They are all clean installs.

[Wiifreak]

I have the same problem.
But here's my story:

When using the Live CD I get a larger resolution then 800x600 (is this because XVESA, and XORG?)

When fresh installed I had 1024x900 or something.
Hardware-driver-manager began to screem there was a driver for my Nvideacard (Older Gforce).
After installing I got 600x400, found out because normal Nvidea driver.
I uninstalled the normal driver and installed the legacy.
Now I have 800X600.

My opinion:
You have 2 video drivers in Linux:
XVESA and XORG, XVESA doesn't support 3d, and (opinion) XORG doesn't the Nvidea driver.

I can switch to my embedded videocard on the motherboard.
But that doesn't gives me the advantage to use WINE and Beryl.

Maybe the solution :>Link< (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=783119)

[Tasc0]

That; we don't know because you haven't done a clean install yet. I can tell you that I have 4 Hardies working in different hardware, but with Nvidia cards all of them and they are all doing fine. I think it's the best OS I've seen. They are all clean installs.
I'll try doing a clean install with 8.04.

[Pumalite]

Good luck.

[blondebeard]

Hey I accidentally figured this one out I have an hp pavilion dv9000 notebook using hardy 8.04 lts official release. In system\preferences\appearances visual effects tab I moved it to extra effects then weird stuff happened the screen blinked and then I went to system\preferences\screen resolution and then I was given a draw down menu to choose from hope this helps you I did this along time ago so you might be asked to install restricted drivers or packages also, don't remember though.

[Tasc0]

This is great. Now that I've installed 8.04 I get a Grub error. It can't load, error 17.

Edit:
I think I should post menu.lst.

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=369391cf-f93b-4347-ae7c-36b2abc6a2ac ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=369391cf-f93b-4347-ae7c-36b2abc6a2ac ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

[Pumalite]

Post:
sudo fdisk -l
(from a Live CD)
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#17

[wpshooter]

I just upgraded to it. I had 7.10. After I rebooted the computer I had the message of working in a "very low" resolution. I enabled my video card driver, rebooted again and nothing happens.

I've been using Ubuntu for over a month, so I'm pretty a newbie to it.

Any reply would be appreciated and thanks in advance.

Have you tried going into the BIOS and check to see if your video card is sharing memory with the SYSTEM. If it is then make sure that the amount of shared memory is set to the MAXIMUM allowed instead of one of the lower choices.

Good luck.

[Tasc0]

Have you tried going into the BIOS and check to see if your video card is sharing memory with the SYSTEM. If it is then make sure that the amount of shared memory is set to the MAXIMUM allowed instead of one of the lower choices.

Good luck.
I'm afraid it would be pointless since I just made a clean install. Thanks for reply.


Post:
sudo fdisk -l
(from a Live CD)
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#17

Sorry, it's in Spanish:

Disco /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80032038912 bytes
255 cabezas, 63 sectores/pista, 9730 cilindros
Unidades = cilindros de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Identificador de disco: 0xc8ca98c5

Disposit. Inicio Comienzo Fin Bloques Id Sistema
/dev/sda1 * 1 4502 36162283+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disco /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 cabezas, 63 sectores/pista, 19457 cilindros
Unidades = cilindros de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Identificador de disco: 0xac20e2d1

Disposit. Inicio Comienzo Fin Bloques Id Sistema
/dev/sdb1 1 4863 39062016 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 4864 4985 979965 82 Linux swap / Solaris


I have two HDDs. One 80 GB IDE with a NTFS partition that only has files, and the other is a 160 GB SATA with only the new Ubuntu OS.

[Pumalite]

A mix of IDE and SATA is bad news. Your sudo fdisk and menu.lst are in concordance. To solve your problem you should have both OS's in the first drive (SATA?) and use the second for storage or separate /home for Ubuntu. Check this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=46003
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=567907
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=593615&page=2

[Tasc0]

I only have one OS installed in the SATA drive, which is the fresh Ubuntu install plus the SWAP partition.

[Pumalite]

If you read the links; the solution is to have BOTH OS's in one drive; the one you boot from.

[Tasc0]

If you read the links; the solution is to have BOTH OS's in one drive; the one you boot from.
I only have ONE operating system, just Ubuntu. Not Widows, no nothing.

[Pumalite]

What is sda1 in fdisk?

[Tasc0]

What is sda1 in fdisk?
A NTFS partition with nothing but files (no OS) in the 80 GB IDE drive.

[Pumalite]

Use gparted and change the boot flag to the Ubuntu partition and boot from that drive.(right now is in sda1)(Grub might have gotten installed there and that's why you are getting the error.)

[wpshooter]

Quote:
Originally Posted by wpshooter
Have you tried going into the BIOS and check to see if your video card is sharing memory with the SYSTEM. If it is then make sure that the amount of shared memory is set to the MAXIMUM allowed instead of one of the lower choices.

Good luck.

I'm afraid it would be pointless since I just made a clean install. Thanks for reply.

I don't understand why having re-installed the O/S would make this pointless. If you had a bad setting in the BIOS, reinstalling the O/S is NOT going to fix or have any affect on that bad BIOS setting !!!

I still think you need to at least look at this possibility.

[Tasc0]

Quote:
Originally Posted by wpshooter
Have you tried going into the BIOS and check to see if your video card is sharing memory with the SYSTEM. If it is then make sure that the amount of shared memory is set to the MAXIMUM allowed instead of one of the lower choices.

Good luck.

I'm afraid it would be pointless since I just made a clean install. Thanks for reply.

I don't understand why having re-installed the O/S would make this pointless. If you had a bad setting in the BIOS, reinstalling the O/S is NOT going to fix or have any affect on that bad BIOS setting !!!

I still think you need to at least look at this possibility.
I'll try this when I get Ubuntu working. Thank you.


Use gparted and change the boot flag to the Ubuntu partition and boot from that drive.(right now is in sda1)(Grub might have gotten installed there and that's why you are getting the error.)

Ok, I just changed the boot flag to the Ubuntu partition and removed the boot flag from the sda1 and I still have the same problem.

[Pumalite]

Are you booting from the drive where Ubuntu is? If so, try reinstalling Grub to its own partition.

[Tasc0]

Are you booting from the drive where Ubuntu is? If so, try reinstalling Grub to its own partition.
Yes and how do I do that?

[Tasc0]

Removed image due privacy concerns.

The selected partition it's where Ubuntu is installed.

[confused57]

I would recommend downloading & burning a copy of Super Grub Disk:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/SuperGrubDiskPage.html
SGD may be able to boot Ubuntu on sdb1.

You can try installing grub's IPL(Initial Program Loader) to the mbr of the SATA drive, using the live cd:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351
Read the instructions in the link, but it would be something like:

sudo grub
find /boot/grub/stage1
this should return "root (hd1,0)", then you would:

root (hd1,0)
setup (hd1)
quit

Then set your SATA drive to boot before your IDE drive in bios. If you get a grub boot menu, highlight the first Ubuntu entry, press "e", highlight the line with root, press "e" again, change root from (hd1,0) to (hd0,0), press "enter", then "b" to boot. This change is temporary, but can be made permanent if it works.

[Tasc0]

I get


grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
(hd0,0)


Is this wrong?

[Pumalite]

Is right if Grub is in your first drive.

[Tasc0]

Is right if Grub is in your first drive.
And what determines which one is the first one?

[Pumalite]

The one you are booting from.

[Tasc0]

I would recommend downloading & burning a copy of Super Grub Disk:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/SuperGrubDiskPage.html
SGD may be able to boot Ubuntu on sdb1.

You can try installing grub's IPL(Initial Program Loader) to the mbr of the SATA drive, using the live cd:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351
Read the instructions in the link, but it would be something like:

sudo grub
find /boot/grub/stage1
this should return "root (hd1,0)", then you would:

root (hd1,0)
setup (hd1)
quit

Then set your SATA drive to boot before your IDE drive in bios. If you get a grub boot menu, highlight the first Ubuntu entry, press "e", highlight the line with root, press "e" again, change root from (hd1,0) to (hd0,0), press "enter", then "b" to boot. This change is temporary, but can be made permanent if it works.

That worked. Thank you. I tried installing Grub earlier but I did not make the setup (hd1) part. I had to edit the entry on Grub. Now I'll do it from menu.lst.

[Tasc0]

For got to say: the clean install is working properly with a higher resolution.

This Firefox 3 sucks, by the way.

[Pumalite]

You are welcome. Good luck.
http://www.unix-tutorials.com/go.php?id=861

[Tasc0]

You are welcome. Good luck.
http://www.unix-tutorials.com/go.php?id=861
Any way to get rid of this ugly *** Firefox 3? I want 2.x.

[Pumalite]

sudo aptitude install firefox-2

[Tasc0]

sudo aptitude install firefox-2
That installs Firefox in English. I've been trying to find how to install Firefox from the tar.gz file but the ones I've found don't work. So I just download the Spanish version and install it.

[Pumalite]

Muy bien.

[Tasc0]

Muy bien.
Muy bien nothing lolz... I still can't find out how to install from the tar file.

[Pumalite]

I imagine you have it in your Desktop:
cd ~/Desktop
tar xvzf firefox-2.0.0.14.tar.gz
cd firefox
./firefox
Make sure Firefox is closed when you do this.

[Tasc0]

./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Guess I have to install something called libstdc++...

[Tasc0]

I just tried

sudo aptitude install libstdc++

But I get the same error. Help?

[1915flyer]

Hy, try
gksudo displayconfig-gtk. This opens the configuration dialog gutsy used to have. It lets you select your monitor and graphics card.

Yours, ansicplusplus

Worked fine for me. Several installations of 8.04 and none detected the Viewsonic monitor resolutions. Max 800x600 caused a real problem with running anything. Once I set the monitor the graphics card looked OK.

Thanks. I've written this down for use until the patches come out.

[Limbic]

I'm pretty sure this is actually a monitor issue and not a video driver now, or at least not just a video driver issue, as other people have mentioned. Last night I did a fresh Vista install (still feel dirty, what's appropriate penance?) on one hard drive and a fresh Kubuntu Hardy install on the other. There were actually quite a few random issues that happened with my display last night, so I'll just toss them all out here and hopefully someone else can make more sense of what's happening.

I installed Vista first and this is actually where the problem started. After the install using the generic driver at 1680x1050 everything was fine while rebooting. I installed the newest beta drivers, everything seemed fine after i rebooted with the new Nvidia drivers, then I got a "No Signal" message from my monitor and the screen went completely black. Checked Google, got some ideas about what was happening, then booted into Vista in safe mode and checked the monitor settings in the Device Manager and it said "non-PnP device". Uninstalled the drivers, rebooted, and then everything was fine.

On the Ubuntu end of things, I decided to do another fresh install after I'd been getting weird video errors and the problem other people are having of being stuck 800x600 resolution whether or not the Nvidia drivers are being used. I updated my BIOS as well last night (I'll put my full system details below), and between that and the fresh Vista install everything seems to work fine.

Are the other people who are having problems also dual-booting, and is it possible that one OS or the other is messing with the monitor settings so the graphics drivers can't detect them right? Really not much of a hardware type, so I'm just making a wild guess here.

Anyway, hopefully someone can make sense out of that. Here's my system:

Abit IP35-e (bios 11 updated to 17. This cures the double-boot and seemed to clean up a lot of the strangeness with the X-server while installing Ubuntu)
Intel e2160 CPU (1.8 overclocked to 3.0)
EVGA 8800GT with 175.16 drivers (I think, the most recent beta drivers)
Chimei 22" monitor

[1915flyer]

Wasn't a dual boot problem with me as I started with a clean disk and installed Ubuntu 8.04. Video card is an ATI Rage128. After entering the commands above, I selected the monitor (Viewsonic FP790) and the graphics card tab listed a whole bunch of available modes. So it may not have been the inability to detect the video card but rather the monitor which limited the resolution.

Anyway, I'm happy now and it works. I just have to remember what to do with any new installations.

Tyler

[Wiifreak]

After I updated my Ubuntu 8.04 I got a 800x600 screen... hows that possible?
I have a GeForce2 MX 400.
I also had the problems that I had a 800x600 resolution with the Legacy driver.

[bigken]

After I updated my Ubuntu 8.04 I got a 800x600 screen... hows that possible?
I have a GeForce2 MX 400.
I also had the problems that I had a 800x600 resolution with the Legacy driver.


usually after a kernel update you have to reinstall your video drivers

[Pumalite]

Download the video driver appropriate for your card from Nvidia site (legacy, I think) and install it following their instructions Maybe Envy also works:
http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

[Wiifreak]

Ah, I rebooted again and got my full resolution back.

Im going to try instal the legacy driver again with Envy.
See if there are still trouble to come...

[indiana_crook]

I find that when i have issues like these it usually has something to do with Compiz.

[iknowkungfoo]

Hy, try
gksudo displayconfig-gtk. This opens the configuration dialog gutsy used to have. It lets you select your monitor and graphics card.

Yours, ansicplusplus

Thanks so much. I'm relatively new to Ubuntu and I couldn't find that control panel after I installed the NVidia drivers. Now enjoying 8.10 at 1600x1200. :)

[ubuntal]

I just upgraded to it. I had 7.10. After I rebooted the computer I had the message of working in a "very low" resolution. I enabled my video card driver, rebooted again and nothing happens.

Install Envy first
sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk

Run it from the System Tools menu. It will download and install the latest nvidia driver, 173.14.09 in my case.

Backup your xorg.conf
cd /etc/x11/
mv xorg.conf xorg.conf_pre_envy

Go
sudo nvidia-xconfig to recreate the xorg.conf

Restart the X (ctrl+alt+backspace) and enjoy.