I'm not sure if this applies to your situation or not, but I had a computer running Debian with an old Nvidia TNT2 card. I installed the proprietary drivers and everything was working fine, but when I updated to Linux Mint 8 (Ubuntu 9.10), I found that I could no longer install the Nvidia proprietary driver (71xx) for my card. I guess the updated Xorg (1.6?) no longer supports it.
2010/2/1 Lazzaro Nicolò Ciccolella <[email protected]> > > Il 01/02/10 09.50, Lazzaro Nicolò Ciccolella ha scritto: > > Il 31/01/10 13.13, Aymeric Mansoux ha scritto: > > Dan S said : > > > the output of xrandr command: > > (~) % xrandr Screen 0: > minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 1920 x 1920 > DVI1 disconnected > LVDS connected 1920x1200+0+0 367mm x 230mm > 1920x1200 60.0*+ > > > OK I see, so I take it "DVI1" represents your second screen. One > factor I'd forgotten - I've only ever been using VGA to connect my > external screens, not DVI. Anyone else done DVI? Does it need any > special modules for example? > > > Just curious, which macbook are you using? > You can tell by giving us the output of: > > sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name > > > > MacBookPro5,2 > > As far as I understand Apple, they love to change specs every day, and > in this case your graphic card might need a specific tweak to get it > working with an external display > > > I don't think that is a Apple issues, the last time (2/3 months ago) I have > used ubuntu (perhaps 8.10, certainly not the last 9.10) it recognize > perfectly in the same computer the same second monitor. > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook > might be a good place to find out about those tweaks. > > > > thank you, I want to investigate more... > > OK, I am prety shre that the problem of second screen is Nvidia Driver > related. > I have booted ubuntu (8.10) from CD and in the "hardware driver" menu I > have enabled the proprietary Nvidia driver. > After I have relogged in and trough Nvidia driver setting I have configured > perfectly the second screen. > > Now I must understand how to do the same thing in puredyne, the problem is > that in puredyne Hardware menu does not appear the Nvidia entry. > Maybe in my specific case I must insall Ubuntu 9.10 on hard disk, configure > the nvidia drives and then install puredyne via repository. > > Unless someone can confirm me that the puredyne live DVD come with the > proprietary nvidia driver. > In this case I must understand only how to enable them. > thanks for any help. > _ > Lazzaro > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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