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Need software for Acer Monitor AL1917WA

Asked by Saul Lubkin

My computer is an Acer PC, that has an LCD monitor, model no. AL1917WA. The version no. is AL1917WAb.
The Pin is ET.C17WP.A06.

I need software to support this monitor: Occasonally, when a new program executes, the screen becomes an unreadable raster
pattern, forcing a reboot. This also happens, sometimes, when I reboot.

I ran an earlier version of Ubuntu previously, and had the same problem. Someone on Launchpad kindly responded to my problem, asking me to execute two commands, and to send him/her the output. He/she then responded, telling me to execute
"sudo apt-get install <some program>. I did this, and the problem happily disappeared. When I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 recently, I unfortunately rebooted my computer during the upgrade, losing most of my data. Fortunately, I was able to recover all of the most important material. But I lost whatever I had previously installed to support the monitor.

I would greatly appreciate help in retrieving these programs, to properly support the monitor.

Thank very much in advance,

  -- Saul

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Thomas Krüger (thkrueger) said : 		#1

For the X experts: This might be related https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59211 .

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Monitors are plug and play and do not require drivers in any OS.

What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a;uname -a

Thanks

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Saul Lubkin (saul-lubkin) said : 		#3

Thank you for responding, Actionparsnip!

Here is the output:

 sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a;uname -a
[sudo] password for saul:
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: C61 [GeForce 6100 nForce 405]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: d
       bus info: pci@0000:00:0d.0
       version: a2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
       resources: irq:20 memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff
memory:fc000000-fcffffff memory:80000000-8001ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10
Codename: saucy
Linux NullA 3.11.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 9 16:20:46 UTC 2013
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  -- Saul

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:21 AM, actionparsnip <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Your question #238150 on xorg in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+question/238150
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> actionparsnip requested more information:
> Monitors are plug and play and do not require drivers in any OS.
>
> What is the output of:
>
> sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a;uname -a
>
> Thanks
>
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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Reboot to test.

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