Hello. First of all I apologize if my post is in poor format. This is my first ever post.
From what I can tell Ubuntu seems to be detecting things like my:
Video Card
Sound Card
Wireless (not working have tried downloading the suggested packages for the broadcom wireless card to no avail)
All of these and possibly others seem to be detected as generic. I have sound and my display is ok. But I am lacking tv out functionality.
My evidence of my devices being detected at generic is my xorg.conf file (which I generated using some steps in another forum):
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri2"
Load "record"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
A little information about my setup. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and it was installed using wubi on a partition that also has some windows programs.
I know that some programs are able to see the devices properly on Ubuntu as I downloaded a package called Sysinfo which is able to identify my video card as i915 and wireless card as the proper broadcom model.
As far as steps to take I am not very familiar with Ubuntu programs but have learned a little about using terminal and should be able to follow whatever steps are advised.
Thank you very very much for all your help.
P.S. - I am prepared to reformat the entire hard drive and install Ubuntu on a fresh partition but this would be a rather large undertaking so I would prefer to find an alternate solution or at least try other steps before resorting to this step.
P.P.S. - I have posted a couple other things from my system at the end here I am not sure if it is relevant but was requested in resolving the Broadcom Wireless card issue in another post.
sarah@ubuntu:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 6599 1
parport_pc 26058 0
ppdev 5556 0
snd_intel8x0 25664 2
snd_ac97_codec 99227 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1014 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 71475 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_midi 4588 0
snd_rawmidi 17783 1 snd_seq_midi
joydev 8767 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6047 1 snd_seq_midi
i915 295243 4
snd_seq 47174 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 19067 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
drm_kms_helper 30200 1 i915
snd_seq_device 5744 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
pcmcia 35973 0
drm 168092 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
snd 49038 11 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
yenta_socket 21518 0
soundcore 880 1 snd
pcmcia_rsrc 10566 1 yenta_socket
intel_agp 26566 2 i915
snd_page_alloc 7120 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
i2c_algo_bit 5168 1 i915
pcmcia_core 14657 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,pcmcia_rsrc
agpgart 32011 2 drm,intel_agp
psmouse 59033 0
video 18712 1 i915
output 1883 1 video
serio_raw 4022 0
lp 7342 0
hp_wmi 5223 0
parport 31492 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
8139too 19581 0
8139cp 16934 0
mii 4425 2 8139too,8139cp
sarah@ubuntu:~$ sudo iwconfig
[sudo] password for sarah:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sarah@ubuntu:~$ lspci | grep -i net
06:05.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
06:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
sarah@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0a:e4:dc:9a:a7
inet addr:192.168.1.68 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e4ff:fedc:9aa7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4616 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4226 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3703078 (3.7 MB) TX bytes:603176 (603.1 KB)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0x3000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:720 (720.0 B) TX bytes:720 (720.0 B)
