Need help with Nvidia drivers please

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Husse

Re: Need help with Nvidia drivers please

Post by Husse »

You have to find out if your card really is using the proprietary driver

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lsmod | grep nvidia
You should get two hits (probably)
One with nvidia alone and one or two depending on nvidia - nvidia is shown to the right
If you don't fine nvidia here time to check your xorg.conf

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gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
You're ready to edit
With one monitor there should be just one Section Device looking like this
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
There might be some options - leave them as is
The only other options for Driver are "nv" or "vesa" - if so take a note of which it is and change to nvidia
If you did not find nvidia in lsmod but find it here time to call for more help
(lsmod lists all loaded kernel modules - roughly the same as drivers)
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Husse

Re: Need help with Nvidia drivers please

Post by Husse »

Something obviously has been wrong
Delete the line
Boardname "vesa"
It indicates that at some time X has not been able to identify your card. It used to explicitly state the model, but now (with Elyssa) it just says Identifier "Configured Video Device" (before it should have said something like gforce 8800)
I guess you have a nforce motherboard - am I right?
Husse

Re: Need help with Nvidia drivers please

Post by Husse »

Before you reinstall one last try
Copy xorg.conf

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sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf  /etc/X11/xorg.conf-bak 
Remove the modes and modelines
Add

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Option      "DynamicTwinView"   "False"
to Section "Device" (last in the section)
Change your vertical refresh to 60 or 75 if your LCD monitor handles 75
Oddly nvidia cards don't get more than some 50 Hz without that
Husse

Re: Need help with Nvidia drivers please

Post by Husse »

Apart from adding the twin view option in the xorg.conf with modelines I'm out of suggestions
Husse

Re: Need help with Nvidia drivers please

Post by Husse »

Aha
Where do you find the identification - it's not obvious from xorg.conf
Try to change plug and play with the name of your monitor - lots of monitors are recognized by name
What monitor is it?
Some vendors have the same or very similar names for their different monitors so it may be wrongly identified...
Husse

Re: Need help with Nvidia drivers please

Post by Husse »

It could be a generic name, even if it seems odd
But if everything works ok now "forget about it"
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