I have a NVIDIA 128MB GeForce4 MX440 AGP card installed. When I go to System Settings/Monitor & Display/Hardware/Configure in Administrator mode it picks up the card as an Nvidia Geforce 4 (generic) but won't let me apply it. The only dirver it will allow is Nvidia Legacy which doesn't work well at all. How do I fix this? Thanks.
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Re: Question about using video drivers in Kubuntu
Open Adept and on the search field type nvidia-glx
Install it and close Adept
Open a konsole and type
sudo kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf <---- Here look for Device and make sure that instead of "nv" as a driver, says "nvidia" if is not state as "nvidia" replace "nv" for "nvidia"
Save and close it
Here u can reboot, once you are back on the Desktop, open a Konsole and type:
sudo nvidia-settings
There, make the changes (screen resolution and so on) and click on "Apply" and then click on "Save to X configuration file"
That should solve any video issue to your specific video card
Regards,
MepisReign
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Re: Question about using video drivers in Kubuntu
Thanks, your advice worked OK but I got the following message in Konsole when I typed sudo nvidia-settings:
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 147
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 147
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
Then the nvidia configuration program came up but max setting was still at 640x480. I know this card will take 1024x768.
Any idea how to fix this? Thanks.Comment
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Re: Question about using video drivers in Kubuntu
I have never figured out why this also happens to me... I'm also interested.
In the future you can refer to http://www.ubuntuguide.org, the procedure that you followed is also there.Comment
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