Re: [Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-11-11 Thread Joep
dragonfly schreef: @Avery Day, I'm honored by your request but my name is not Avery Day and I did not gave those answers. I have an nvidia card (GEforce 4000) using ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) and the nvidia drivers - finally - work OK. I have had much problems with nvidia drivers (in Fedora as

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-11-10 Thread dragonfly
@Avery Day, I don't know if it's too late to add a comment to this bug... I have a problem now with 2.6.24-21-rt (#1 SMP PREEMPT RT) kernel and I have lspci -nn |grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV25GL [Quadro4 900 XGL] [10de:0258] (rev a3) and it worked

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-09-05 Thread Brian Murray
** Tags added: valid-xorg-conf -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-06-06 Thread Ilya Vishnyakov
My friends, maybe you could advice me on this issue. I followed these steps successfully, when Hardy came out. 1. Download the 173.08 nvidia beta driver here http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html click on archive and find the 173.08 driver. 2. Purge the nvidia restricted package and the

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-05-13 Thread xplong
I have the same problem. When I reboot, x server tries 3 times to start and then it switches to safe graphics mode (vesa, 800x600). When I hit test and manually select nv driver, it really works in test. However, when I continue, it somehow switches back to vesa. Same problem. Black list the

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-05-12 Thread Fungyo
@Avery Day your last solution worked for me. Running Kubuntu 8.04 with 7600GS. Installed the beta drivers right from the word go on a clean install, X would fail. The crucial part for me was to blacklist the nv driver. Without blacklisting nv, I would get this: API mismatch: the client has the

Re: [Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-05-12 Thread Joep
Again, I removed the nvidia drivers and manually updated xorg.conf to use the Xorg nv driver. That worked for me. It even correctly interpretated the modeline I entered. I will try the nvida 96.43.05 driver later. A @Avery poited out this driver doens't work with older cards (e.g. my GeForce4 MX

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-05-10 Thread Sam Stern
Hi All, I just ran into this bug as well in ubuntu 8.04 lspci -nn |grep VGA 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV28GL [Quadro4 980 XGL] [10de:0288] (rev a1) no amount of wrangling with nv, nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-new, or nvidia- glx-legacy would convince the system not

Re: [Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-05-10 Thread Joep
Sam, With my (old) GeForce4 MX 4000 board the X.org nv-driver works without a problem. I even succeeded to adapt the modeline command in the xorg.conf file to the resolution 0f 1440x900. I have to try the (old) 96.43.05 nvidia driver but I first have to solve another problem with U 8.04. Joep On

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-05-10 Thread Avery Day
There is a better way than to uninstall the nvidia-kernel-common package and that is to blacklist the nv driver. I originally tried to do this in the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file but that failed hence the reason why I said to uninstall the nvidia-kernel-common package (I was in a hurry). The

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-05-10 Thread Avery Day
Joep, I have not a clue, sorry!! -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-05-05 Thread Joep
Avery, Sorry for the delay but I gave up and went back to FC7. Now I try again and administered the suggestion:Disable glx. However, no result. Are there other suggestions. I don't like to buy a new card. By the way: under FC7 after some initial problems the nvidia driver (I don' know the

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-30 Thread Joep
I have an older NVIDIA card the GeForce4 MX 4000 and have exactly the same bug. However, when I get the NVIDIA driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.08-pkg2.run) it will not install as the card is too old and I can only use older (legacy) drivers. Does anybody know how to solve this. Of course I

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-30 Thread Avery Day
Joep, Read the second post down http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=49027174bcdd86c18631aaade1057d49t=111460 Avery -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you

Re: [Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-30 Thread Joep
Avery, Thanks for the quick reply. In essence you say I have to disable glx. I did that to comment out the Load glx line (put a # in column 1) but apparently that did not the trick but I have to use the line Disable glx in section Module. However, in my other Linux configuration (FC7 with vesa

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-28 Thread Gary
Just to confirm the 173.08 fix seems pretty robust and seems to solve the issue that is made worse by twin monitors Synaptic etc just pull the (buggy) released version) Solution works with both twinview and separate x screeens http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_173.08.html

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-28 Thread Avery Day
The 173.08 drivers change log says: Fixed a regression that caused invalid EDIDs to be detected for the internal display device on some notebooks. This confirms what the problem is for me. The 173.08 driver also has some other very important fixes and support for new video cards. I wonder how

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-28 Thread Bob Kline
Could you run 'lscpi -nn |grep VGA' and post the results. For nVidia GeForce 7100: 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:07e1] (rev a2) I, too, was able to use Avery's workaround, but I would be happier to have a solution which didn't leave me with a

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-28 Thread Bob Kline
... what's the process for getting a card into the database for PCI IDs? I see that it's already in the upstream database, and I found the update-pciids command. I also did some research and found that gdm decides what the screen resolution is be reading the first mode in the Display section of

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-27 Thread Ilya Vishnyakov
Avery Day! Thank you! These steps: Here are the steps: 1. Purge the nvidia restricted package if installed by doing a dpkg --purge nvidia-glx-new 2. Kill the gdm server, /etc/init.d/gdm stop 3. Install the driver mentioned above. 4. start gdm server /etc/init.d/gdm start When X starts you should

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-27 Thread jmassane
Hi, The problem I had (live CD not giving the option to use restricted nvidia driver) goes away after installation. This may help pin down what the problem is. Cheers, -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-27 Thread Avery Day
I would also like to add something else to my fix. After rebooting X will fail with the beta driver. I have no idea why but the only way I was able to fix this was to uninstall the nvidia-kernel-common package in addition to the nvidia-glx-new. So here is revision 2 of the work around. 1.

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-26 Thread Avery Day
For those of you having problems with the nvidia restricted driver either crashing X or displaying a black screen with Ubuntu 8.04 use the latest nvidia beta driver found on the nvidia website it is version NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.08-pkg1.run. I am running the Quadro NVS 140M on a Dell D830 and this

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-26 Thread vista killer
i had the same problem with 8800gts. I have kubuntu hardy heron and the only way to install driver is with envyng tool. The strange is that jocker-tool not recognize my card and that i need driver. -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-25 Thread Simply Seth
upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS [10de:0427] (rev a1) -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-25 Thread Simply Seth
removed nvidia-glx-new installed nvidia-glx it works -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-25 Thread Jean Cremers
Same problem here, I upgraded to hardy today. Tried that last suggestion, did not work for me. The nivdia driver does not load, I'm searching for 3 hours now. -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-25 Thread jmassane
Timo, was the updated nv driver package included in the first official release on Thursday, or do we still need to update it ourselves? I ask because this bug persists on the official release I downloaded yesterday. Alternatively might the problem be something other than the unsupported

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-25 Thread jmassane
Oops, meant to direct that last question to Seth and Jean. Sorry! -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-25 Thread adotei
oops, sorry, gave the wrong link to the other bug with the possible workaround I mentioned above. The link is given below. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/189398 -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-25 Thread adotei
Not sure how relevant this might be to most of you but I also had the same problem. Installing the nvidia-glx-new driver or nvidia-glx driver and restarting crashed xorg and I had to either type sudo dpkg- reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg in a virtual terminal or use bulletproof X to reconfigure

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-25 Thread Ilya Vishnyakov
Same problem. using Nvidia 7600 gt and Hardy -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-22 Thread Risto Välimäki
This bug have gone for me after latest Hardy upgrades. Whether it was related to nvidia binary driver or proper detection fo my GF 7300gt, it is now completely gone and fixed. Thanks. -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-19 Thread jmassane
Forgot to add the output from from lspci -nn | grep VGA (run from gutsy) 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6100 nForce 405 [10de:03d1] (rev a2) Cheers, -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-19 Thread jmassane
Loaded up live cd (Hardy release candidate) and encountered same or similar bug. screen resolution was 800x600 restricted drivers manager gave no option to use nvidia driver. In a gutsy install my graphics hardware is detected as GeForce 6100 nForce 405, the gpu is integrated into the mainboard

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-18 Thread Timo Aaltonen
The original issue should be fixed, the nv driver package now lists all pci-id's it supports. Risto, your problem is with the nvidia binary blob. See linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 bugs for a match or file a new one. ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid ** Changed in:

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-15 Thread BC7333
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci -nn | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV31M [GeForce FX Go5600] [10de:031a] (rev a1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ What works for me is the following: sudo cp a 'working' xorg.conf (see example that worked for me attached) then DO NOT

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-07 Thread Risto Välimäki
Timo, I think I had every single one of those installed and linux- generic as well. But for me, latest updates have done the trick and *everything just works*! Kernel is now 2.6.24-15 -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-07 Thread Risto Välimäki
No, sorry. Everything seemed to work, nvidia-driver was loaded and nvidia-settings was fine. However, 3d-acceleration was not enabled so this bug is still not gone. Also, trying to start X again flickers 3 times and then switches to vesalow resolution. So it was just a (partially) lucky boot. At

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-04 Thread downfallat111
I am having the same problems. I can enable the nvidia driver and set up my native resolution, but after a restart i get the black screen flashed 3 times and then the 600x800 resolution in the gdm and the vesa driver is selected. any help would be great. heres the output of lspci: 05:00.0 VGA

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-01 Thread Risto Välimäki
I have the same problem. When I reboot, x server tries 3 times to start and then it switches to safe graphics mode (vesa, 800x600). When I hit test and manually select nv driver, it really works in test. However, when I continue, it somehow switches back to vesa. If I configure xorg.conf to use

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-04-01 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Risto, you just seem to be missing the modules for the running kernel. Install linux-generic, which should pull in linux-restricted-modules etc for the current kernel. -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-29 Thread Shaun Crampton
Timo, I'm afraid your new nv driver doesn't seem to have worked. I added your repo to sources.list and updated apt. Then I used Force version in Synaptic to force the xserver-xorg-video-nv package to use the one from your repo and applied the change. I hit Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to restart X but I

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-27 Thread ŐRY Máté
I have 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] [10de:0322] (rev a1). Hardy beta1 boots up, flashes three times (beetween black screen and virtual terminal) and then starts X with the 'nv' driver. My properly working gutsy upgraded to hardy does the

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-27 Thread ŐRY Máté
(On Hardy beta1 i mean the live cd.) -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-27 Thread Shaun Crampton
** Attachment added: Log from run with nv manually selected http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12926432/Xorg.0.log -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-27 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Please try the package from my ppa: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tjaalton/ubuntu hardy main -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-27 Thread Timo Aaltonen
..and don't specify nv in the conf. -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-27 Thread ŐRY Máté
Timo: it did the same for me as the original restricted driver (3 flashes). -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-27 Thread ŐRY Máté
Sorry, I have misunderstood you; my problem is solved. (I had booted the old kernel because I had two menu.lst files.) -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-25 Thread Tom Greer
Same problem here. On boot the Screens and Graphics screen does not show nvidia as an option (even after reselecting the nVidia proprietary driver and rebooting -- or after installing the nVidia driver via EnvyNG). The nv driver can be selected off the Screens and Graphics menu, however,

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-25 Thread Britt
Same problem using Hardy beta. X fails and displays the low resolution error dialog. Gnome starts in 800 x 600. I enable the Nvidia drive in hardware drivers and restart. X fails and displays the low resolution error dialog... I have the Nvidia Quatro NVS 140m in a thinkpad R61. The Quatro NVS

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-25 Thread Shaun Crampton
Please will you all post the output of the command lspci -nn | grep VGA as Timo requested of me. Perhaps your cards are missing from the supported list as well. -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-25 Thread Britt
$ lspci -nn | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M [10de:0429] (rev a1) -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-25 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Shaun, your pci-id is missing from the driver, so that's easily fixed. ehnar, could you check the Hardy beta livecd if it works for you now. If not, please show what 'lspci -nn |grep VGA' gives. The Quadro issue is something else, and Tom, this bug certainly doesn't concern the proprietary

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-25 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Shaun, please attach the Xorg.0.log when you have specified the driver in the conf. -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-24 Thread smurfslover
Same problem over here both in clean install and after upgrade from feisty. Graphics card is Geforce FX5200 using hardy beta. I used the nvidia-glx-new driver on feisty all was working perfectly. Going to try to add Driver nv to xorg.conf as mentioned by Shaun Crampton -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-24 Thread Indy
I have the same problem. Also, after each boot, before my desktop appears, I get a message saying that GNOME could not start in high resolution, and the options to Configure, Continue, or Cancel. If I Configure, I am given a menu of what video card to choose, etc, but none works. The Plug 'N' Play

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-24 Thread Indy
* thank you -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-24 Thread Indy
I am sorry, I meant I upgraded from Gutsy. -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-18 Thread Shaun Crampton
In Hardy it's the same (as expected): 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] [10de:02e1] (rev a2) -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-17 Thread Shaun Crampton
I'm in gutsy at the moment, waiting for big download to finish (will retry from the live CD itself in a little while). lspci -nn reports: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] [10de:02e1] (rev a2) Is it correct that the vesa driver doesn't support

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-17 Thread Shaun Crampton
(Looks like I have a 7xxx series card after all.) -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-13 Thread Timo Aaltonen
That would mean that the driver does not list all pci-id's it supports. Could you run 'lscpi -nn |grep VGA' and post the results. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nv (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: xorg = xserver-xorg-video-nv ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nv (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided =

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-10 Thread Shaun Crampton
** Summary changed: - nvidia + Screen resolutions on livecd Hardy + [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-10 Thread Shaun Crampton
I just tried Hardy Alpha 6. I still get 800x600 by default but now the Screens and Graphics app. works and I can select the 'nv' driver and click Test and the test screen is correctly displayed and I can select my monitor manually as 1280x1024 and click Test and that also works. Looks like it's

[Bug 173418] Re: [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd

2008-03-10 Thread Shaun Crampton
Adding Driver nv to the device section of xorg.conf and Ctrl-Alt-Bksp did the trick and I'm now logged in to the live CD at 1280x1024 so it's definitely the autodetection. ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None = xorg -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen