Hi Rob,
Have you tried installing nvidia-settings (apt-get install
nvidia-settings)? You'll need to run the program with sudo, but it's
usually quite reliable. Failing that, let me know your monitor make/model
and desired res, and I'll give you a template that should work.
Russell.
On 30 August 2010 16:20, Rob Malpass <linux@???> wrote:
> Hi all
>
>
>
> I’ve got into a pickle re xorg.conf and I’m a bit stuck. I do apologise
> because I’ve had this trouble before and people kindly pointed me in the
> right direction but the problem this time is slightly different.
>
>
>
> The card fwiw identifies itself as follows:
>
> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400 GS]
> (rev a1)
>
> I’m running:
>
> Linux gough 2.6.32-24-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 19 01:38:40 UTC 2010
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
>
> The problem is that the other day I had to physically move the machine and
> stupidly reconnected the output to the wrong port on the card. This caused
> a reconfigure box to come up and I told it to do so. Since then I
> oscillate between the following two extremes:
> * 800x600 caused by no xorg.conf at all
>
> * a blank screen.
>
>
>
> I have the latest drivers installed but when I go to change the res, it
> tells me the nvidia driver is not in use and I should run (as root)
>
>
>
> nvidia-xconfig
>
>
>
> This duly produces a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf but rebooting produces the
> blank screen. My only temporary workaround has been to rename this to
> something else (therefore booting without an xorg.conf at all) which at
> least allows X to start but in a res that’s far too low for my liking.
>
>
>
> The other complication is that there are 3 outputs on the machine.
>
> 1) It has onboard graphics
>
> 2) It has a VGA port on the card
>
> 3) It has a DVI on the card which I convert to VGA using a little
> adaptor. I can’t remember why but this has always worked for me prior to
> this stupid reconfiguration I told it to do.
>
>
>
> As I remember, there’s a little package I downloaded from somewhere which
> sorted me out last time but (as is always the case with me and Linux – I
> don’t use it every day so) I’ve forgotten what this was called.
>
>
>
> Other things I’ve tried are
>
> dpkg-reconfigure –Xorg
>
> dpkg-reconfigure –xserver-xorg
>
>
>
> as the results of googling. I also have the port mentioned in 2) above
> connected to a separate monitor just in case that's something to do with it
> - but 2) is showing no video output.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance, as ever.
>
>
>
> Rob
>
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