Utter confusion and hair falling out.

[fanakapan]

Hello newbie here...please have mercy.


I have installed 8.04 on a new box and after the success of getting the wireless driver and internet working I was really pleased with myself. The issue of the screen resolution is driving me insane.
Tried to install the Nvidia drivers after reading a thousand posts on how to do it ( all different of course)
The latest step by step install was going fine ubtil it asked me to press ctrl alt F1 to login...does not work !!! Cannot get into a terminal except by Konsole

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

[dibl]

Re: Utter confusion and hair falling out.

What is the graphics card or integrated chip? If you're not sure, open a console and enter

lspci

and post the line that begins "(bus ID #) VGA compatible controller ...."

[fanakapan]

Re: Utter confusion and hair falling out.

Cannot see a line like that. For what its worth here is the listing

barry@barry:~$ lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 ISA Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP67 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a2
)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2
)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a2
)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2
)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 IDE Controller (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 AHCI Controller (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:0f.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:11.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 6 30a (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTra nsport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Con troller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscella neous Control
01:07.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

[dibl]

Re: Utter confusion and hair falling out.

00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 6 30a (rev a2)

That's the one. Is that a nForce motherboard?

So, probably your best bet is

sudo apt-get install envyng-core

and then when it is finished installing,

sudo envyng -t

and use the character mode installer to (a) remove the driver (just in case) and then (b) install the driver.

[fanakapan]

Re: Utter confusion and hair falling out.

sorted. EnvyNG did the trick a treat. Nice Thanks

Now I have to sort the sound out