I've just got a new 2nd hand card, but Kubuntu 8.10 hits a white screen after logon. It works fine (am writing this from the XP drive on the same machine), but Kubuntu is not falling back on a default driver for the card. I can get into a terminal (ctrl-alt-f2), so would really appreciate it if you guys could give me some things to try to remove the old drivers.
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"new" screen card: need help
MyWorld
Executive Member
Give us the output of the following:
lspci
To get into your installation without the correct driver, do the following:
Look for the display driver section, on mine it looks like this:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Change ONLY driver to "vesa".
This is a standard non accelerated driver.
lspci
To get into your installation without the correct driver, do the following:
Code:
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.confSection "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Change ONLY driver to "vesa".
This is a standard non accelerated driver.
Code:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restartMyWorld
Executive Member
For KDE:
From what I experimented, xorg.conf still overrides other settings
Code:
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restartFrom what I experimented, xorg.conf still overrides other settings
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MyWorld
Executive Member
If it is a nvidia card, install the drivers for it?
Read on the Ubuntu wiki how to do it, there should be detailed instructions on there.
Read on the Ubuntu wiki how to do it, there should be detailed instructions on there.
What a pain. I've got it working (seems like there has been major problems with the older nvidia cards and kde4). What I eventually had to do was to go back to the onboard card, and load the driver from there (found that I didn't have the restricted repositories activated).
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-96
It's not very good, but at least I can now try things with the card active.
Thanks to MyWorld & Milomak for responding.
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-96
It's not very good, but at least I can now try things with the card active.
Thanks to MyWorld & Milomak for responding.
Just another update on this.
After getting the screen running, I installed the recommended 173 drivers. However, the fonts were looking *really* horrible, then after reading numerous pages on lousy fonts (and trying various "fixes"), something made me check on screen resolution. The screen was down to 1600x1200, and its native resolution is 1920x1200. Neither the nvidia control panel nor the Kubuntu control panel would go higher.
Now the "new" card has both DVI and VGA out, and I was running DVI (isn't that why I bought the card?). What I then did as an experiment was to shutdown and connect the second input port on the monitor to the VGA out on the card (leaving the DVI-DVI connected) and rebooted. The monitor disabled the DVI-DVI connection and used the VGA-DVI connection! Kubuntu then booted in with 1920x1200 resolution and the fonts look cool again.
What a mission!
After getting the screen running, I installed the recommended 173 drivers. However, the fonts were looking *really* horrible, then after reading numerous pages on lousy fonts (and trying various "fixes"), something made me check on screen resolution. The screen was down to 1600x1200, and its native resolution is 1920x1200. Neither the nvidia control panel nor the Kubuntu control panel would go higher.
Now the "new" card has both DVI and VGA out, and I was running DVI (isn't that why I bought the card?). What I then did as an experiment was to shutdown and connect the second input port on the monitor to the VGA out on the card (leaving the DVI-DVI connected) and rebooted. The monitor disabled the DVI-DVI connection and used the VGA-DVI connection! Kubuntu then booted in with 1920x1200 resolution and the fonts look cool again.
What a mission!