Hi Russell
Sorry for the enormous delay in replying. I do have nvidia-settings installed. The latest is that the following xorg.conf produces a non-workable screen. Running in 640x480 but this makes it impossible to use the nvidia-settings tool to alter the resolution - I can only see the top left corner of the window. If you can either tell me how to maneuvre to the other parts of the window or to run in a higher res - I'd be most grateful.
Thanks
Rob
From: hampshire-bounces@??? [
mailto:hampshire-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Russell Morris
Sent: 31 August 2010 09:15
To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] FW: Missing xorg.conf
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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