[xubuntu-users] GeForce4 Old-video-card working wrong in Xubuntu 14.04

[Kiyotaka Nemoto]

Hi fernando,

FYI, I wrote a post "How to install official NVIDIA drivers on Xubuntu 14.04"

http://www.nemotos.net/?p=1094

This may help you install nvidia's proprietary driver.

Best regards,

Kiyotaka


2015-05-06 22:59 GMT+09:00 fernando <fernandoduo at yahoo.com>:
> I wanted to verify what you recomend me, so I reenable nouveau and tried
> again.
> It starts wrong, but it fixes if there is a xorg.conf limitating the
> horizontal sync.
>
> Then I disabled nouveau again, and things went wrong again.
>
> I'll keep tryin to install nvidia's proprietary driver.
>
> On 04/05/15 19:52, Alejandro Lieber wrote:
>>
>>  04/05/15 03:52, Fernando Duo wrote:
>>>
>>> I have an old computer wich was running Xubuntu 12.04, quite good. As I
>>> upgraded it last Saturday it started working wrong, specialy video totally
>>> distortionated.
>>> When I learned I can change default video configuration, puting a
>>> xorg.conf in /etc/X11/, I tried difrent resolutions.
>>>
>> ............
>>
>>> Grub menu showed bad behavior before Xubuntu 14.04, having heavy
>>> distortion since Xubuntu 12.04.
>>> Now, even console interface works wrong, it get almost no distortion but
>>> it's like there were flying pixels.
>>> I installed nvidia tools, and tried this:
>>
>> Fernando:
>>
>> I had the same problem with a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 AGP 8x in Lubuntu.
>>
>> I corrected all problems modifying the following line in
>> /etc/defaults/grub:
>>
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
>>
>> adding at the end of the line:
>>
>> nouveau.noaccel=1"
>>
>> So the line looks like:
>>
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nouveau.noaccel=1"
>>
>> After this modification you MUST run:
>>
>> sudo update-grub
>>
>> Alejandro Lieber
>>
>
>
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