Low resolutions after installing the Nvidia binary driver
I just installed a fresh copy of ubuntu 8.04 and installed the restricted drivers for nvidia gfx cards. Unfortunatley my screen resolution is stuck at 800*600 when I know the maximum resolution is 1440*900. I've tried this tutorial https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fi...nary%20drivers) but it was no use.
http://www.lge.com/products/model/detail/l196wtq.jhtml Thats my monitor and I have a geforce 7350LE When I go into my xorg config file this is all that's there at the moment: Code:
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file) Thanks |
Do the Horizontal Sync and Vertical Refresh values in your "Monitor" section match your screen's capability?
I also find this option a bit strange: Option "UseEdidFreqs" "false" That is usually employed if the screen does report an EDID string but gives bad values; otherwise it's more convenient to use information which is actually supplied by the screen. You can just put a '#' at the start of the line to comment out that option or else change it to "true". For more clues, look at the log /var/log/Xorg.0.log |
How did you install the nvidia driver? In your "device" section in xorg.conf it does not have nvidia as the driver. Here is that section from my xorg.conf
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Section "Device" For your video card you should install the nvidia-glx-new driver from synaptic. Then run sudo nvidia-xconfig from terminal. Then restart X. I think installing the specific driver from synaptic is more reliable than using system > administration > hardware drivers, and hoping it installs the correct driver. |
ok major wtf...
I just reinstalled ubuntu, same cd, same options and everything and now my screen resolution is working fine! I just don't get how reinstalling the os would drastically change the settings this way. anyways here's my new xorg.conf file (i haven't installed the restricted binary drivers yet) Code:
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file) Also when I ran the command glxinfo | grep -i direct i got: direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose) OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect Again let me install the binary drivers and see what happens! Edit: Glxgears running perfectly, at 2000 fps. Direct rendering is enabled. and my xorg.conf file looks like this: Code:
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Edit: Oh... well, I was responding to your first post. I see in your second that some weirdness happened and all is well. ;-) |
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