<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Gustin Johnson <<a href="mailto:gustin@echostar.ca">gustin@echostar.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> Brian Blater wrote: > I have an older machine that has been running Ubuntu Studio 7.10 for > awhile. For the last couple of days I've been trying to install US > 8.04 on this box (clean install.) For the most part the install went > fine, but I'm only getting 800x600 resolution from my card - Geforce2 > MX400 using the default driver. I installed the proprietary nvidia > drivers using the driver manager that pops-up and tells that their are > proprietary drivers available and then I end up with only 640x480 > after the reboot. Can't seem to get any better. I did some google > searching and it seams others have had the same problems. No real fix > for it from what I can tell. Several were able to get it working after > installing EnvyNG several times, others modified the xorg.conf. I > tried the EnvyNG route and it uninstalls the proprietary drivers and > installs the drivers. Then I either get 640x480 or X won't even start. > > I thought maybe this was a problem specific to the MX400 so I tried > installing using a Geforce FX5200 and I'm getting the same problem. I > have to admit this is very frustrating as I've always been able to > just install and it works. But this time for the life of me I just > can't get it work on this machine. I messed with this for the last > couple of days and I've gone no where. I can't believe that US 8.04 > won't work on this hardware. > > I've noticed several times that the machine will stop on Timidity and > just hang when I try to reboot. Not sure if that has anything to do > with it or not. > > Any help I can get will be greatly appreciated. I would really like to > get this machine back up and running. > </div></div>- From the command line, try: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Choose the nv driver (open source 2d only).  This should get you back into graphical mode.  If you do not need 3D (and I mean need, as in it is *required* to get your work done, not because you think compiz is purdy) I would stick with the 2d drivers.  I have had problems in the past with the proprietary video drivers and real time kernels. When choosing drivers, I believe there is a legacy nVidia driver, which is the one you want.  You could also download the latest (legacy) driver directly from nvidia, and install it via the CLI.</blockquote><div> Choose driver by adding: Driver     "drivername" Under the VideoCard seciton of /etc/X11/xorg.conf </div></div> -- Christopher Stamper Email: <a href="mailto:christopherstamper@gmail.com">christopherstamper@gmail.com</a> Web: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2ooncg">http://tinyurl.com/2ooncg</a> gTalk: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6e359r">http://tinyurl.com/6e359r</a> Skype: cdstamper </div>