How do I fix Nvidia accelerated driver in Ubuntu 10.04?

jacatone · 05-01-2010, 03:56 PM

After installing Ubuntu 10.04, kept getting this popup advising me of an Nvidia accelerated graphics driver 96. After installing it my highest resolution is 640x480 and I get the following error:

"It appears that your graphics driver does not support the necessary extensions to use this tool. Do you want to use your graphics driver vendor's tool instead? Yes/No"

How do I get this thing to a 1024x768 resolution? Thanks.

jstephens84 · 05-01-2010, 06:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jacatone

After installing Ubuntu 10.04, kept getting this popup advising me of an Nvidia accelerated graphics driver 96. After installing it my highest resolution is 640x480 and I get the following error:

"It appears that your graphics driver does not support the necessary extensions to use this tool. Do you want to use your graphics driver vendor's tool instead? Yes/No"

How do I get this thing to a 1024x768 resolution? Thanks.

try editing your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and where you see

Code:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

try adding underneath Depth

Code:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

then save and logout or you alt+ctrl+backspace should restart your X server.

jacatone · 05-02-2010, 05:12 PM

Actually, I don't see that in my xorg.conf file. I have the following:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

How would I fix this instead?

mark_alfred · 05-02-2010, 05:19 PM

Try "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg". Sometimes this will give you the option to adjust your screen resolution.

jacatone · 05-02-2010, 06:35 PM

Nope, didn't work. Just gave me the 640x480 max.

John VV · 05-02-2010, 06:45 PM

how did you install the 96 driver ?
apt-get? or the " NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.16-pkg1.run " ?
also is that the correct driver for your card ( a VERY OLD card ) -- so what is the card ?

jacatone · 05-02-2010, 07:24 PM

It's an nVidia-GeForce2 MX/MX 400 card. I used the Administration>Hardware Drivers tool to install the driver.

John VV · 05-02-2010, 07:53 PM

what version of the driver is it
to see

Code:

nvidia-settings

the nvidia tool will give it version
-- screen shot --
http://www.imagebam.com/image/32f61178928552
and this is a copy of my working xorg.conf

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

 
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "DELL P792"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 96.0
    VertRefresh     48.0 - 170.0
    Gamma           1
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce2 MX/MX 400"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
    Option         "NVAGP" "3"
    Option         "metamodes" "1024x768 +0+0; 1600x1200 +0+0; 1280x1024 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

brucehinrichs · 05-02-2010, 08:40 PM

I believe this well help.

jacatone · 05-02-2010, 11:22 PM

Thanks brucehinrichs, I'll give it a try after I do another reinstall of ubuntu.