Ubuntu 10.10 nvidia with benq . I have been defeated

[car0]

I have spent the last 10 hours trying to fix this to no avail. I am almost in tears.....

I have loaded 10.10 but I have an Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512 and a benq fp202w.

I am stuck with a screen resolution of 640 x 480. Nothing I do will let me change that. I don't know if its just that the proprietary Nvidia drives will not see my monitor or if its the monitor not telling the right info. either way I don't know what I can do to fix this.

I have edited xorg.conf to no avail (many different times)
loaded different drivers


if anyone can point me to help that they have used please feel free other then that I am going to go drink myself silly becuase I feel totally defeated right now and I want that 10 hours of my life back.

[SunshineFolk]

Have you just messed with your "NVIDIA X Server Settings" (in the app)? Instead of changing your xorg.conf settings manually.

You said you've tried it all, so feel free to tell me if you have already tried that


SunshineFolk

[car0]

yeah I tried that. I can't even set it to anything other than 640 by 480 or lower

[SunshineFolk]

Try this:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

Do you have xrandr?


SunshineFolk

[car0]

yes but from my understanding the nvidia drivers will not read xrandr

[SunshineFolk]

Yeah, I don't really know if it will work with it either (doesn't on mine) but theres a lot of commands you can do to manually change your resolution. Sucks it won't work with it tho! (If it don't anyways.)

Whats your xorg.conf file look like?


SunshineFolk

[SunshineFolk]

I read about someone with this same problem, and they had a bad connection cable. Do you have a spare you could try by any chance?

Also, before you set up your driver did you run:

sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

Its an open source driver installed by default.

Well, on help.ubuntu.com it says you can actually use xrandr (suprisingly!).

So, try this.

Direct xrandr to set a different resolution:

  $ xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x768
  $ xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1024x768

The refresh rate may also be changed, either at the same time or independently:

  $ xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x768 --rate 75
  $ xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1024x768 --rate 60

Now.... Any better? ...I hope.


SunshineFolk

[car0]

I will give it a try be back in a few

[SunshineFolk]

Or try this to generate a ModeLine entry.
If you know what resolution your monitor can display and you know the refresh rate (60 for TFT, 72 or higher for CRT) than enter the following command in a Terminal:

cvt ''height'' ''width'' ''refresh rate''

I'm just trying to give you any option available pretty much but hopefully one of these solutions will fix your problem.

Let me know if it helps I messed with my dual-monitors for TWO days 'til I got them working

[car0]

outputs seem to be wrong its on a dvi cable