[Novalug] graphical issues

[Julia Christianson]

Hi Don,

I knew someone would ask me "which card?" and last night I didn't
know.  Tonight I'm sharp enough to find out: nVidia Corporation
GeForce 8500 GT.  I'm using the open source drivers.  I don't know
how to find out exactly which, but ...


[juliac at desk:~]$ modprobe -l |grep nvid
/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile/nvidia_legacy.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile/nvidia_new.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/char/agp/nvidia-agp.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko

Kubuntu gutsy (7.10).

Thanks for asking ;-)

-- Julia


Don E. Groves, Jr. wrote:
> Which nvidia card?
> Which set of drivers do you installed for the card?
>   The ones in "linux-restricted-modules"
>   Or "nvidia-glx" or "nvidia-glx-new"
>   Or by "nvidia-(new-)kernel-source"
> 
> {-: I like the last one as you don't get all the other restricted JUNK
> and it's overhead included with it. But you are required to have the
> kernel-headers and gcc installed instead. :-}
> 
> Which version of (U)Kbuntu are you running?
> 
> -- 
>  DonJr
> 
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Julia Christianson <juliac at patriot.net
> <mailto:juliac at patriot.net>> wrote:
> 
>     I don't know if this is a KDE problem, a *buntu problem, or an X
>     problem, but I'm having pretty severe graphical issues:
> 
>     (1) My xorg.conf file keeps getting overwritten with a very minimal
>     640x480 config, usually after a reboot although it also happened
>     once during a session, just after configuring a screen saver.  And
>     sometimes the xorg.conf file is unchanged over reboot but the video
>     mode gets set to something widescreen (my monitor is not).  And
> 
>     (2) I'd like to be able to log out, so that others in the household
>     can have their own accounts on the machine, but whenever I do, the
>     screen displays something that looks like a chunk of ram with a
>     repeating pattern displaying in text mode, and keyboard and mouse
>     are nonfunctional, so it requires a hard reboot.
> 
>     This is Kubuntu gutsy, updates up to date, fairly recent but not
>     cutting edge nvidia card, and viewsonic lcd display, but I've also
>     experienced symptom (1) with a CentOS install with an onboard
>     graphics chip & widescreen display (it might also have had (2) but I
>     didn't stay with it long enough to know).
> 
>     Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
>     -- Julia
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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> --  
> Don E. Groves, Jr
> 
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