Natty: nvidia driver as activated but not currently in use

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Sun Jun 19 13:21:34 UTC 2011


drew einhorn wrote:
> > > Googling:  I see that lots of people have had this problem.
> > > Some of them claim to have solved it.
> > > But so far none of the solutions have worked for me.
> > > 
> > > My beautiful 1920x1080 Dell S2209W monitor is only running at
> > > 1024x768

>   *-display
>        description: VGA compatible controller
>        product: G73 [GeForce 7600 GS]
>        vendor: nVidia Corporation
>        physical id: 0
>        bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
>        version: a1
>        width: 64 bits
>        clock: 33MHz
>        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master
> cap_list rom
>        configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It looks like the nvidia driver is in use. Why do you think it isn't? 
Can you post the file "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"? And which Ubuntu version are 
you using?


Nils




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