NVIDIA GeForce 2 Ti / HP L2035 Monitor

[ubunubie]

Hi,

System is P4 AOpen AX4BS, 384 MB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 2 Ti GPU.

I'm dual-booting Gentoo 2006.0 and Ubuntu 6.0.6.

I was originally using an NEC AccuSync 95F monitor, then the other day got myself an HP L2035 flat panel from a friend.  When I swapped the monitors, Gentoo came up OK, albeit still at 1024x768 (I tried changing resolution to 1280x1024 but didn't work).  However, when I booted into Ubuntu, the screen was all garbled and full of X errors.  I switched to command-line and tried to fix xorg.conf, but got nowhere.

Decided to install kubuntu over my ubuntu.

Installation went fine and after I logged in I got 1024x768 resolution which I tried modifying. Noticed that the graphics card was showing as VESA, though it when I went to change it, it does show NVIDIA GeForce 2 DDR generic   under the hardware tab, so I selected this as my card.

Then I attempted to change the resolution to 1600x1200 at 75Hz.  I guess I should have tested before saving the changes

Anyhow after I restarted X I got an error saying no useable configuration found.

I fixed the xorg.conf enrties and was able to get back to the default settings.  But I still would like to increase my screen resolution.  How??

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Paul

[askrieger]

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 2 Ti / HP L2035 Monitor

First of all, are you sure that the GeForce2 Ti will support 1280x1024@75Hz? I ask this because it's clear that your current xserver system doesn't think so. So I'd try the correct resolution at 50 or 60 Hz. This is a flat panel so it's not going to blind you or even give you a headache at 60 Hz, (although an interlaced driver might).

Second, you should install the packages "linux-restricted-modules-<your-kernel>" and "nvidia-glx-legacy", where <your-kernel> is the output of the konsole command "uname -r". Then, after installation run the command "sudo nvidia-glx-config enable". Basically, that just changes the "driver" line from "vesa" to "nvidia" in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, then calculates an md5sum for the modified file, so the system will know you changed it.