Just Installed Ubuntu 12 First Time Linux User

Thanks all for the suggestions, however I decided to call it quits and bought a NVDIA graphics card today, rebooted and it played via HDMI first time, only problem it is picking my Samsung 32 as a 46 and resizing the display larger than the screen size, i have updated the NVIDIA drivers and rebooted, any advice would be appreciated
 
rh1 said:
Thanks all for the suggestions, however I decided to call it quits and bought a NVDIA graphics card today, rebooted and it played via HDMI first time, only problem it is picking my Samsung 32 as a 46 and resizing the display larger than the screen size, i have updated the NVIDIA drivers and rebooted, any advice would be appreciated
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You should only have to set the resolution and that should be enough?
 
rh1 said:
Changed just now, but this means it not in full HD, oh well.
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If the tv is 1920x1080 then the the gfx card should be set to 1920x1080.

What model samsung do you have?
 
This is my xorg.conf from my 32" lcd samsung on which i run myth

Code: 
# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildd@barber)  Sun Jun 13 12:08:56 UTC 2010


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "IgnoreABI" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice" 
        Identifier      "Keyboard0" 
        Driver          "kbd" 
#        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105" 
#        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us" 
#        Option          "XkbOptions"    "compose:lwin" 
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "SAMSUNG"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0"   
#  Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/edid.bin"
    Option      "Coolbits"  "1"
    Option      "TripleBuffer"      "true"
    Option      "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
    Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
    Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
#    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0; 1920x1080_60 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

i have commented out the part related to the EDID.

This is my xorg for my 50" plasma which also runs myth

Code: 
# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Mon Mar 23 15:33:27 PST 2009

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildd@ninsei)  Tue Jun 24 18:11:48 UTC 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "SAMSUNG"
    HorizSync       26.0 - 68.0
    VertRefresh     23.0 - 61.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8200"
    Option      "Coolbits"  "1"
    Option      "TripleBuffer"      "true"
    Option      "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
    Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
    Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
    #BusID "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0; 1920x1080_60 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
      Option  "Composite"     "Disable"
EndSection

i was too lazy to edit them down to just the video related settings. but that is what you should focus on.

and after typing all of this up, it occurs to me - have you run nvidia-settings? nVidia has a tool to setup your xorg automatically.
 
Problem solved. After I re-installed ubuntu, updated NVIDIA drivers, still no luck. I realised the problem, it was not ubuntu but my TV. I had connected it to the HDMI input marked for PC, however the settings on the TV to adjust the picture was greyed out, I swapped the cable to another HDMI input, checked the settings and I could adjust the picture/screen size, and everthing working fine. To everybody that gave advice, thanks it was really aprreciated. For other new Ubuntu users I found the following links usefull

http://debianhelp.wordpress.com/201...alling-ubuntu-12-04-lts-aka-precise-pangolin/

&

http://www.unixmen.com/201204-top-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-2/
 
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