Nvidia driver problem

[Jon Anderson]

>/  As NoOp, I believe, pointed out, one can only create the xorg.conf file
/>/  once you have the driver from nVidia site installed and not the
/>/  fiddled-with driver from the ubuntu repo because no xorg.conf is auto
/>/  created now.
/
Some time back he posted his xorg.conf file. It noted VESA as the
driver. Ergo, he has one. Somewhere.

You know what? If the OP would type sudo lshw and uparrow to read the
display section, then we'd KNOW what the system thinks he has.
Mine reads:
   *-display
                  description: VGA compatible controller
                  product: G96 [GeForce 9400 GT]
                  vendor: nVidia Corporation
                  physical id: 0
                  bus info:pci at 0000  <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users>:01:00.0
                  version: a1
                  width: 64 bits
                  clock: 33MHz

Prolly should have suggested this before... then we'd KNOW what the bios
is letting the OS play with. So, if the OP would do this, and report his
result, that will narrow down the problem.

<slaps forehead>  I should have had a V-8.<chuckles>  Ric

This is what I get, my Nvidia 6600gt is listed at the bottom






*-pci:0
           description: Host bridge
           product: K8M800 Host Bridge
           vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
           physical id: 100
           bus info: pci at 0000:00:00.0
           version: 00
           width: 32 bits
           clock: 66MHz
           configuration: driver=agpgart-amd64 latency=8
           resources: irq:0 memory:e0000000-e7ffffff
         *-pci
              description: PCI bridge
              product: VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
              vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
              physical id: 1
              bus info: pci at 0000:00:01.0
              version: 00
              width: 32 bits
              clock: 66MHz
              capabilities: pci pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
              resources: memory:e8000000-eaffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff
            *-display
                 description: VGA compatible controller
                 product: NV43 [GeForce 6600 GT]
                 vendor: nVidia Corporation
                 physical id: 0
                 bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
                 version: a2
                 width: 32 bits
                 clock: 66MHz
                 capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master 
cap_list rom

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