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nvidia card on ubuntu 8.0.4 not detected after kernel update

Asked by gallagher697

Hi guys.....and girls....
I am using Ubuntu 8.0.4 with Firefox 3.0b5. I had it all working perfectly with Compiz Fusion and AWN, Virtualbox OSE etc until today. After an unrelated reboot today (may have been as a result of an auto-update) my nVidia GeForce FC5200 driver is not recognised, no sound, etc and I cannot enable AWN or compiz Fusion. Any ideas?
This is the second time that this has happened to me, and it is very frustrating. I am quite new to Linux, and until this point I have been singing the wonders of Linux to anyone who would listen.

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china_13 (shan-1302) said : 		#1

you will have to reload the nvidia drivers

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gallagher697 (mhgallagher) said : 		#2

I have tried all that, selected the nvidia card in hardware, rebooted several times, but it still does not recognise it, and I am only getting 800x600res.

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Best Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said : 		#3

Try and load the Nvidia driver module with:-
sudo modprobe nvidia_new
and restart the X-Server by pressing Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace and see if it works now. If you get an error trying to load the module post the error here.

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gallagher697 (mhgallagher) said : 		#4

Thanks Pramod Dematagoda, that solved my question.

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wayne (ejsmithman) said : 		#5

cant get more than 600x400 resolution. with ubunto 8.04 it sees nvidia accelerated graphic driver. but no higher resolution

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said : 		#6

If the Nvidia driver is working, try loading Nvidia-Settings with:-
gksudo nvidia-settings
and see if you can change the resolution from there.

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Johnny (jkiss-sandorlabs) said : 		#7

I'm having the same problem after I updated my machine on June 27th. GForce4 MX-440 Card Kernel 2.6.24-19

I have the nvidia working now after every reboot by doing the below.

* Installed build-essential, reinstalled linux-image-2.6.24-19, restricted modules and kernel headers.
* Re-enabled Nvidia in the Adminstration->Hardware drivers

* I can now get the graphical login screen to look normal, not huge and I can see the login prompts, but after login my resolution is 800x600. I can change the resolution using Pramod Dematagoda's above suggestion ('gksudo nvidia-settings') and selecting "save", but after every reboot and after login my screen resolution returns to 800x600.

I have also noticed when I use mplayer no video appears in the window and the console shows output complaining about Alsa and alsa libraries.

This is very frustrating since everything worked just fine before the update.

Any suggestions?

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gallagher697 (mhgallagher) said : 		#8

Download EnvgNG, and install the right driver from there. Works a treat.

Martin

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Johnny <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Your question #36231 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/36231
>
> Johnny posted a new comment:
> I'm having the same problem after I updated my machine on June 27th.
> GForce4 MX-440 Card Kernel 2.6.24-19
>
> I have the nvidia working now after every reboot by doing the below.
>
> * Installed build-essential, reinstalled linux-image-2.6.24-19, restricted
> modules and kernel headers.
> * Re-enabled Nvidia in the Adminstration->Hardware drivers
>
> * I can now get the graphical login screen to look normal, not huge and
> I can see the login prompts, but after login my resolution is 800x600. I
> can change the resolution using Pramod Dematagoda's above suggestion
> ('gksudo nvidia-settings') and selecting "save", but after every reboot
> and after login my screen resolution returns to 800x600.
>
> I have also noticed when I use mplayer no video appears in the window
> and the console shows output complaining about Alsa and alsa libraries.
>
> This is very frustrating since everything worked just fine before the
> update.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you are a direct
> subscriber of the question.
>

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a-r-k-i-b-o-t-t (arkibott-ray) said : 		#9

Similar Problem: I also get wrong resolutions and wrong preselected drivers when i enable the restricted driver and i can't select the right resolution when it's active. I disabled the driver, since its not working with the current 8.04.1 kernel and the whole actual configuration.
Somehow it only worked with the first installation. Things broke up after some updates and new kernels.