[SOLVED] I'm having a couple of problems...

[Lord-Cat]

Firstly my first post HURZAR!

Now then i've been only using ubuntu for less than a week now
I'm am using ubuntu 8.10 intrepid and i'm running into a some problems

Firstly when ever i try to open some windows for certain things like say i'm uploading something the the System would freeze and i would have to kill the system and boot up again

Another problem is when i watch videos my it ok but when i put it in fullscreen mode the image is glitchy and drags while the sounds plays fine

I've looked over the forum for this kind of problem but i haven't found anything for the above

I have a couple of others but i'm still haven't looked over the forum to see if there anything posted already.

[D-cat]

Are you running with the accelerated video driver?

Please open a terminal window and post the output of the following commands:

lspci | grep -i vga

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

Thanks. (note the upper case X in X11)

[Lord-Cat]

For the first one i got

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8200 (rev a2)

And for the second one i got nothing it just went onto a empty line and then won't accept anything i type after that.

[donaldfarkas]

go to hardware drivers and install the recommended nvidia driver. let me know how it works

[Lord-Cat]

I have all that done already

[D-cat]

You should have seen something like:

dcat@Server:~> grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  Driver       "kbd"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Driver       "nvidia"
dcat@Server:~>

Anyway, what about other stats? What do you have for CPU and RAM?

[Lord-Cat]

CPU is AMD Athlon X2 5050e dual-core processor
And i have 2gb RAM

[D-cat]

Okay, this video problem, with what program(s) does it occur?
Also, do you have compiz enabled?

[reed9]

You should have seen something like:

dcat@Server:~> grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  Driver       "kbd"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Driver       "nvidia"
dcat@Server:~>

Anyway, what about other stats? What do you have for CPU and RAM?

Does 9.10 have an xorg.conf by default anymore? Or if they do it's probably very minimal.

Have you run the nvidia-xconfig utility?
Shyam's blog. Shyam who? Never mind. : Ubuntu Karmic (9.10): NVIDIA - Failed to parse xorg.conf error on saving?

[Lord-Cat]

That helped a good bit but it still drags majorly when i put a video on fullscreen