Help: Nvidia GeForce2 MX 100/200 64MB driver installation guide.

[yan870126]

Hi there,
i'm a new user to linux, i'm currently using Kubuntu 8.04. i do have a Nvidia GeForce2 MX 100/200 with 64MB memory. but the screen just allow me to use the 800x600 resulution, i suspected the video card is not installed in the system. please help....

Thank you,

Yan

[jmadero]

You should have a section called Hardware Drivers (I use Gnome Ubuntu so I'm not totally familiar with KDE) but if you go to the KDE start menu and look for Hardware Drivers, click on that, and it should list the nvidia driver. Really easy to install that way, if that doesn't work a manual install of the nvidia driver isn't horrible but try that first and post what happens

[blueagle78]

jmardero - I've got similar issue. I've got an nVidia GeForce2 MX 200 AGP 32MB card but Ubuntu 8.10 is giving me max resolution of 800x600. Under Administration -> Hardware Drivers where I could activate 3rd party drivers, it doesn't list anything.
How could I manually install the drivers?
I've got an NEC 18 inches flat screen, model number 1880SX.
Thank you

[devils casper]

Open Terminal/Konsole and execute this

sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings
sudo nvidia-glx-config enable

[blueagle78]

Open Terminal/Konsole and execute this

sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings
sudo nvidia-glx-config enable

DC - I'll do it this evening when I'm at home and would let you know the outcome. Many thanks!
Is there anyway to tell Ubuntu 8.10 what monitor I've? Right now in xorg.conf it just has a standard monitor there.

[devils casper]

You can edit xorg.conf manually and specify supported Refresh Rates ( HorizSync/VertRefresh ) and Resolutions.

Press Alt+F2 and type this

gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

These are Monitor and Screen sections configured for my Monitor.

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "LG Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS"
    HorizSync      30-71
    VertRefresh    50-160
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device        "Configured Video Card"
    Monitor        "LG Monitor"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection      "Display"
        Depth        16
        Modes        "1280x1024" "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        24
        Modes        "1280x1024" "1024x768" 
    EndSubSection
EndSection

[blueagle78]

Ok, I've got the screen resolution size I wanted so thanks for that. But now I've got a very very weird problem, actually two! Firstly the title bars aren't appearing for any window. You know the orange/brown one right at the top of all windows. Second which is more of a problem is the terminal window is all white and I can't see anything in it. I installed Konsole and that has got the same problem. In Terminal I can copy/paste or can type commands but I can't see what I've typed. Any ideas?

[jmadero]

with the first one you just need decorations. Do you use compiz? Do cntrl+f2 and type in compiz. If that works than you need to set up compiz so it starts on boot (system, preferences, sessions)

[blueagle78]

Ok guys, managed to fix both issues, white blank terminal screen as well as missing title bars by going to System -> Preferences -> Appearance. Went to Visual Effects and selected None instead of Normal. Found this fix in another forum.
Ok, now I want to find something else to fix I guess. Would I be able to run Beryl or Compiz? I want some nice effects or you guys think my graphics card wont' be able to handle it?
Its Nvidia GeForce2 MX 200 AGP!

[devils casper]

Lets check if you are using correct driver.

grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Post output here.

You card supports Graphics effect very well.