<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Even with the nvidia drivers installed (and not working) use xrandr to get a picture of your card's capabilities.<br></span></div><div> </div><div>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>C. Mike Rice<br>KF7VZZ@gmail.com<br>dolo724@yahoo.com<br></div> <div style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Dave Sisley <dsisley@sonic.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> talk@nblug.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, October 9, 2012 2:45 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu Video
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On 10/09/2012 02:35 PM, Howard Schnirman wrote:<br>> I was lazy and just clicked the OK default to my Ubuntu 12.04 update manager. So it started downloading and installing around 750mb. Well it failed somewhere along the way. Afterwards I can only boot to recovery mode, and am stuck with a display size of 1280 x 720. My Dell S2330mx monitor is capable of 1920 X 1080.<br>> <br>> I'm running an Nvidia GTX 280 card. I tried unintalling through synaptic and reinstalling, and manually installing nvidia's proprietary driver. No luck yet. Any ideas before I decided to do a clean install. Sorry everthing's on one partition, so I'll have to reinstall my LAMP stack, Wordpress, phpmyadmin again.<br>> <br>> Thanks<br>> <br>> Howard<br>Howard: I feel your pain, but at least you can see your desktop! I've been burned more than once by the nvidia drivers, where I have the Proprietary drivers installed, but apt-get installs a bad driver from
the repositories... I think I've finally gotten apt-get (same thing as synaptic, essentially) to stop that, but I've also trying to keep notes about what I've done to fix this.<br><br>One thing I recall is that after running the script provided by Nvidia, I also run 'sudo nvidia-xsettings' to get my dual-monitor set up to work. Not sure if that helps, but I thought I'd offer it... good luck!<br><br>-dave.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:talk@nblug.org" href="mailto:talk@nblug.org">talk@nblug.org</a><br><a href="http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>