X problems

[Karl F. Larsen]

Fred Roller wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 06:14 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>> Fred Roller wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 05:55 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>>> Fred Roller wrote:
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>>>>> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 09:44 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>>>>> 	I mounted a pci Nvidia card several months ago in my computer and it
>>>>>> was working fine to now. I decided to anchor the card front to the place
>>>>>> it should go. Hard to get to because the screw hole is hidden by the
>>>>>> power supply.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 	I unplugged the card and took screws off the back side and was able to
>>>>>> put the screw in with the card out of the socket, and then put the card
>>>>>> into the socket. It appears to be working but my system can not get the
>>>>>> proper image size now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 	If I come up normal I get a 800x600 display which is not right of
>>>>>> course. I did check the system-Admin-Hardware Drivers and the Nvidia
>>>>>> driver was off. I clicked it to on and had to reboot. Checked and it was
>>>>>> off again. Did this dance many times. It appears there is a problem in
>>>>>> this area.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 	If I come up in the broken version of this Hardy and wait for the
>>>>>> ability to check xsetup I do so but it fixes nothing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 	Any ideas? I do get a good image so I think the Nvidia pci card is
>>>>>> working. But I can't get the right image size.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Karl
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>>>>>> -- 
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>>>>>> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>>>>>> 	Linux User
>>>>>> 	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
>>>>>>         Key ID = 3951B48D
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>>>>> Karl, if you have a spare video card, swap it out to make sure you
>>>>> didn't damage something during the install.  Sounds like you had to shoe
>>>>> horn the thing in and may have damaged it in some way.  Let's be sure
>>>>> the hardware is good to go first.
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>>>>     I do have the video card that is on the mother board. I removed the
>>>> pci card and worked with that video device and had exactly the same
>>>> image size problem. This seems to tell me the problem is software, not
>>>> hardware.
>>>>
>>>> 73 Karl
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>>> What do your logs have in them?
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>>     I will have a look at /var/log/ and see. I am on my laptop now. It
>> is also Linux and is still working!
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>> 73 karl
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> You might want to consider re-installing the nvidia driver. I think
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> 	System->Administrations->Hardware Drivers
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> will give you this option.  It will be a good idea to make sure the
> driver is a) active and b) the correct one.  You should be able to
> double check with nvidia's site for the driver for your card.  If
> necessary do a manual install.  Their site was pretty good about
> supporting linux.
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    Yes my plan is to get the proper version from the Nvidia site and
reload all three versions of Ubuntu. I have heard people say that Nvidia
is the best kind of video device to have. I think they are wrong!

    I do have the Ubuntu provided Nvidia and it is not working. When I
set it to work it makes me reboot and when I come back up it is still
not working. Wierd!