GeForce 8800GT Resolution prob.
 

Anyways my current problem is, i told linux that i had a nvidia 8 series graphics card and now its put me in graphical restriction mode and i can't go above 800x600 resolution. Does anyone know a fix for this problem??

Here is a direct link to my graphics card:

http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16814150253

Did you download the nVidia drivers? nVidia hardware requires proprietary Linux drivers which you need to install from their website.

Cheers

Oh ok i thought linux came with built in drivers.

I installed the driver and linux doesn't know howto open the file.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...64_169.09.html

please help :-(

What distribution are you using and how did you install the driver ? Can you be a little bit more specific, you'll probably get this problem solved a lot faster.

Yeh the Nvidia driver you down loaded needs to be run as root in single user mode or recovery mode. Post back the distro you are using and we can give you better help.

im using gutsy

ALSO linux is wanting to open it in wine, im going to try to do the single user mode like rangerman said.

ok i have no clue howto get on single user mode...

Huh? Are you sure you downloaded the Linux driver, and not the one for Windows? They come in a completely different file format. Linux shouldn't try to open a Linux file with Wine...

Ya i downloaded the file that i originally linked.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...64_169.09.html

In a terminal, type sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.09-pkg2.run

This will be case sensitive...

Cheers

I believe Ubuntu has packages of the nivida drivers, that would be a better way for you to install them.

what do you mean by packages?? also that install thing replied back with "sh: Can't open NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.09-pkg2.ru"

i typed it in exactly as you presented it.

I just went into the ADD/Remove part of the linux. I downloaded the available driver listed that was not for servers. I restarted the computer after doing so, then I changed the drivers to Nvidia in the "screens and graphics" application.

The thing is, everytime I tell it I have a Nvidia 8 series card it resets to "generic vesa"

Im sorry im a noob :-/

To get to single user mode press Ctrl-Alt-F1 at the same time. log in then cd (change directory)to the directory you installed the driver to.


The driver you are trying to install needs to be install as root so prefix the command with sudo

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.09-pkg2.run

It will prompt you for your passwd, if you get an error write down the error, and post it.

Don't you also need to shutdown X? I certainly needed to when I installed an nvidia driver using the .run file downloaded from nvidia.com

Unfortunately, I know nothing about gutsy. I was using Debian. There is was:

Ctrl-Alt-F1
log in as root
/etc/init.d/kdm stop
cd to where the .run file was saved
sh the .run file
/etc/init.d/kdm start

You might be using gdm instead of kdm. Beyond that, I don't know what other variation there is between distributions in the correct command to stop and restart X.

I think the main cause of that error is you didn't first cd to the directory where the .run file was located. But if you fixed just that, there would be other problems, because it needs to be run as root with X turned off.

I don't know gutsy, so I have no idea what drivers were available there. The correct driver is "closed source", which seems to make it discouraged in the package managers of some distributions (extra steps needed to make it visible and/or it's loaded from someplace entirely different from other packages). In Mepis, I didn't find it in the package manager (I didn't go to extra effort to figure out how). Instead I found it in the Mepis X Assistant, which made installing it very easy. For any distribution, if you can't figure out the distribution specific way of installing it, you can use the .run file from nvidia.com instead (I used that method for Debian before using the easier method for Mepis).

I downloaded the driver package directly to my ubuntu desktop

Driver package? Or the .run file? I'm not sure what you would do with a driver package on the Desktop (I'm sure it's easy, I just don't know).

There is a directory path to your Desktop that you can use in non GUI mode or anywhere else that you can't use GUI access to the desktop.

My Desktop is /home/john/Desktop
I don't know the universal way to find it (I'm sure there is one) but failing that, just look. It can't be too hard to figure out where it is. (It sure isn't hidden as well as it would be in Microsoft Windows).

So the cd step I mentioned above on my own system would have been
cd /home/john/Desktop

I hope you know these things are all cases sensitive.

Linux cannot open sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.09-pkg2.run

Lol, since your john also ill try the CD that you said.