Wrong video driver being used in Lucid

Tom Bell cbell44 at cfl.rr.com
Tue May 18 19:36:40 UTC 2010


On 05/18/2010 08:10 AM, Steve Morris wrote:
> On 18/05/10 07:44, Steve Morris wrote:
>> On 18/05/10 07:17, William Hamra wrote:
>>> On 05/18/2010 12:12 AM, Steve Morris wrote:
>>>> I have an nvidia Gforce 7600GS video card and I have "upgraded" to
>>>> Lucid
>>>> via the alternate cd (it didn't wipe my system/home directories but
>>>> effectively installed everything else from scratch even though
>>>> using the
>>>> expert mode) from Karmic where I was using the nvidia binary
>>>> driver. The
>>>> upgrade to Lucid has replaced the nvidia binary with the stupid
>>>> nouveau
>>>> driver which doesn't work properly (kde has the desktop display
>>>> configured at 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz but the driver is running at
>>>> 1280x1024 @
>>>> 50 Hz).
>>>> I have now installed the nvidia binary driver via the nvidia-current
>>>> package and the nvidia-glx package but the system is not using this
>>>> nvidia driver. In the absence of an xorg.conf how does one force the
>>>> system to use the nvida binary driver when installation of the package
>>>> does not activate it (it is contentious as to whether or not
>>>> installation of the package should force configure the system given
>>>> that
>>>> on my laptop which is using an intel graphics chip an install of Lucid
>>>> from scratch on a newly formatted system installed the nvidia binary
>>>> drivers for whatever reason, but it is correctly using the intel i915
>>>> driver).
>>>> I have tried a   sudo update-alternatives --display xserver-xorg   but
>>>> it says there are no alternatives and,   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh
>>>> xserver-xorg   appears to do nothing.
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>> in a terminal, run the following:
>>> sudo nvidia-xconfig
>>>
>>> this will generate a xorg.conf file that instructs X to use "nvidia".
>>> as a precaution, make sure you have "linux-headers-generic"
>>> installed as
>>> well, so that the nvidia driver can be configured correctly.
>>>
>>> sudo aptitude install linux-headers-generic
>>>
>> Thanks William. I hadn't used nvidia-xconfig because I have had
>> issues with it generating an xorg.conf that is wrong and stuffing up
>> a working system because of it.
>> I already have linux-headers-generic installed but that package is
>> for the wrong version of the kernel. I now have installed the headers
>> for the kernel installed and will see if that fixes things on the
>> next boot.
>>
>> regards,
>> Steve
>>
> I have finally enabled the nvidia driver. I had to use apt-get to
> install the linux header package for the kernel I am using because
> even though synaptics said it had downloaded and installed it, it
> hadn't. I am also using xorg.conf from Mandriva as the settings used
> by Ubuntu at 1280x1024 are not compatible with my monitor, and
> nvidia-xconfig doesn't generate the modelines needed for proper
> functionality either.
>
> regards,
> Steve
>
Out of curiosity, have you tried "sudo nvidia-settings" at the command line?

Tom

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