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nvidia issues

Asked by J Petrovic

i have an old computer with a nvidia geforce 3 generic card and i can't get any higher rez than 800-600 theres no option. i've tried installing the legacy drivers and no difference. Also i'm a full numb

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J Petrovic (turbochardged) said : 		#1

i'm using a fresh install of 8.04

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MattWelborn (mattwelborn) said : 		#2

Have you tried the restricted drivers manager (System>Administration>Hardware Drivers)?

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J Petrovic (turbochardged) said : 		#3

i did and when i check it i get 640-480 rez but i get the effects to work

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J Petrovic (turbochardged) said : 		#4

i also downloaded the drivers from nvidia but i don't know how to install them. I "sudo sh NVidia-linux-x86-96.43.05-pkg1.run" but it said i had to stop Xserver to install

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MattWelborn (mattwelborn) said : 		#5

To stop xserver and install the downloaded drivers, you will need to use a non-X console to shutdown X. To do this, log out and wait until you see the login screen. Press ctrl+alt+f1 to switch to the first console. Login and use the command "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop" to stop the X server. (If you are using KDE/Kubuntu, "sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop" should do it. For XFCE/Xubuntu, "sudo /etc/init.d/xdm stop".) Next, install the drivers as you were doing previously. To bring the X server back up, either reboot (I would recommend it, unless otherwise noted by the installer) or "run sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start" (or kdm or xdm).

Hope this helps.

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arekkusu (arekkusu-r) said : 		#6

I suggest you use the driver provided by Ubuntu. You said the effect are working when you enabled the driver so it seem as if it could be working.

Your xorg.conf might not have been configured correctly.

I suggest you read this concerning fixing resolution problem: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FixVideoResolutionHowto (Good luck !)

If you really want to install the driver from the Nvidia website you have to stop the xserver in the following way

1.switch to a virtual console (alt + ctrl + f1 - f6)
2. sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

Note that the driver might break after kernel update (in this case you need to reinstall it)

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Kev (kevvroxx) said : 		#7

try.. system... preferences....main menu...in left hand panel, go to other... then enable by ticking screens & graphics. then close and go to applications... other and you should see that option and have a play .. good luck

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J Petrovic (turbochardged) said : 		#8

nope i ran the installer and then rebooted and then enabled the driver in "hardware driver" and rebooted again and i'm back to 640-480

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MattWelborn (mattwelborn) said : 		#9

You can try configuring with: Xorg -configure
It might get technical, however.

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Best Kev (kevvroxx) said : 		#10

This worked for me
(This bit I had done before) but for you, you need to enable the screens and graphics menu...
system... preferences....main menu...in left hand panel, go to"other"... then enable by ticking screens & graphics. then close and go to applications other and the new menu should display
here, instead of selecting my actual monitor type ( Viewsonic VG700b) I chose the lcd panel 1080x1024 the res I wanted... in your case choose monitor and select the one with the res you want... then follow prompts and see it that gets you the menu at the bottom of the longin screen ....I did not change my video card settings so it seems to be a monitor thing or in my case LCD

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MattWelborn (mattwelborn) said : 		#11

If you are going to do this, make sure that your monitor has some sort of safeguard against signals it can't handle. Some monitors (especially old ones) will break if you give them signals at too high a frequency for a given resolution.

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J Petrovic (turbochardged) said : 		#12

Thanks Kev, that solved my question.