Nvidia headaches or bad motherboard?

[Peter Goggin]

I use a KVM switch and in order to get Ubuntu to recognise the monitor
correctly I find it is necessary to have the Ubuntu  box selected during
the boot and login process. Thus I have to switch the boxes on in
sequence - 
1. Turn on first box and make sure KVM is switched to it.  Complete the
boot and login processes
2. Turn on secong box and make sure KVM is switched to it.  Complete the
boot and login processes
3. Turn on the XP box (This does not need the KVM to be switched to it ,
apart from when loggin on)

I think the problem is the KVM boxes present a default monitor to the
systems which are not selected.

Regards


Peter Goggin


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[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of (``-_-´´) --
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Sent: Sunday, 31 August 2008 10:15 AM
To: tuxman at knology.net
Cc: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Nvidia headaches or bad motherboard?

Olá Young e a todos.

On Saturday 16 August 2008 00:43:17 Young wrote:
> I can't make the Nvidia drivers active, and can't detect the graphics
> hardware or the monitor.
> 
> I just built a new system, and Ubuntu is giving me fits because of
> Nvidia. I wanted to avoid Nvidia, but when you try to find a good
> low/medium cost system with decent performance it seems to be the only
> choice.
> Ubuntu 8.04.01-alternate-amd64 has problems which I described in the
> thread "New System Problem", and couldn't solve.
> ---------------------------------
> I've backed off to 32 bit and installed Ubuntu 8.04.1-desktop-i386.
> Still having problems.
> First its stuck at 800x600 max.
> 
> I tried the "System > Administration > Hardware Drivers" method from
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
> and tried using Envy.
> I have a second machine, a KVM switch and second LCD panel, so I've
> swapped out just about everything. The only thing I haven't done is
put
> the new 1680x1050 LCD on the old machine.

I guess you by now have gone by this steps, but i've found that many KVM
suck at sending the correct info to the GPU.
When I find this kind of trouble, I just connect the monitor/projector
directly to the GPU, let Ubuntu configure it the best way possible, and
then reconnect the KVM.
It as always worked for me, but even doing this, sometimes after a power
cycle some systems fail, and I have to redo the work.

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