Issue with NVIDIA card

GH girardhenri at free.fr
Wed Jan 29 09:53:17 UTC 2014


Le 29/01/2014 09:06, Georgi Kourtev a écrit :
> The fact is that I decided to do a fresh install of 12.04 as my /home is on a
> separate partition.  After installation I used nouveau drivers and the card
> started to behave quite OK.  The sole problem is that after each reboot the
> resolution drops back to 800x600 (or similar) and I have to changed it from
> the System settings every time.
>
> I am not sure that I would like to take the risk in installing the NVIDIA
> drivers now, as I have no clue how to remove them if the systems gets broken
> and I would have to do that through terminal...
> gk
>

Personaly I had few times this problem : 95 % I didn't recover it. For 
the 5%, I success after much pain. Install nvidia if it doesn't work 
sudo apt-get purge nvidia* and xserver shoold reinstall. But I noticed 
that using gdm instead lighdm could solve the problem. But it's not 100% 
fiable.
Henri




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