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    twin display and sound problem

    HI Folks,

    I've used this machine for a few years now, desktop system. Installed fresh 64 bit Kubuntu on a new hard drive. I am a technical person, but relatively new to Kubuntu so I don't yet know my way around the innards of Linux properly.

    First issue...

    Nvidea graphics card with one monitor plugged in the analogue port and another in the digital port. On initial install, the display came out of the digital monitor and the analogue monitor had odd text characters, some of which flashed various colours. ON loading the latest Nvidea drivers, the display is now on the analogue monitor, the digital monitor and the control panel says that my system doesn't support twin display.

    The audio ... well, there isn't any :-) I did a search against "CK804 no sound" and didn't come up with much at all ... so I'm posting. Help!

    michelle@michelle:~$ lspci
    00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
    00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
    00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
    00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
    00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
    00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
    00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
    00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
    00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
    00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
    00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
    00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
    00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
    00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
    00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
    00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport 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 Controller
    00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
    01:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01)
    05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] (rev a1)


    michelle@michelle:~$ lsmod
    Module Size Used by
    snd_intel8x0 36872 3
    snd_ac97_codec 125720 1 snd_intel8x0
    ac97_bus 2176 1 snd_ac97_codec
    snd_pcm_oss 44704 0
    snd_mixer_oss 18976 1 snd_pcm_oss
    snd_pcm 93160 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
    snd_seq_dummy 3460 0
    snd_seq_oss 33440 0
    snd_seq_midi 8192 0
    snd_rawmidi 27360 1 snd_seq_midi
    snd_seq_midi_event 8448 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
    snd_seq 60608 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
    snd_timer 26992 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
    snd_seq_device 8308 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
    iptable_filter 3872 0
    snd 77096 16 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_ oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_ti mer,snd_seq_device
    ip_tables 21200 1 iptable_filter
    soundcore 9088 1 snd
    amd64_edac_mod 26688 0
    nvidia 10316904 36
    x_tables 25832 1 ip_tables
    snd_page_alloc 10928 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
    i2c_nforce2 8168 0
    k8temp 5504 0
    edac_core 48876 1 amd64_edac_mod
    lp 11908 0
    joydev 13088 0
    ppdev 8232 0
    parport_pc 37352 1
    parport 40528 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
    serio_raw 6596 0
    hid_microsoft 4292 0
    usbhid 43968 0
    ohci1394 33780 0
    forcedeth 61292 0
    ieee1394 100896 1 ohci1394
    floppy 65192 0
    michelle@michelle:~$

    Any ideas gratefully received.
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    Re: twin display and sound problem

    Sound sorted. Now it is down to the video issue.

    I'm not sure whether the sound was a codec thing with the web browser, but I got some MP3 files locally and they are happily playing.
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      Re: twin display and sound problem

      Right - nearly there.

      After going down deeper in to a second set of settings, I found an nVidea panel. I can get the other screen to work, but on pressing the button to save to configuration, I get an error that it can't parse the xorg.conf ... so I'm going to hunt down that issue ... but of course if anyone happens to know the resolution to that one off hand, it would save me much time ;-)
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        Re: twin display and sound problem

        OK - got it.

        THe nvidea system was unable to parse the existing file. There was only one thing to do - kill the existing one and write a new one.

        Fortunately for me, the nVidea console allowed me to view a copy of what it was going to write to the file. All I had to do was copy this, put it in a new file and then use a terminal to get in to the /etc/X11 directory and "sudo cp /home/michelle/xorg.conf ." and that did the trick.

        Now, on reboot, I get the proper display settings! Yay!

        I think I should have a little more faith in myself.

        The audio, I'm not sure. Just messed around with the sliders and, suddenly, something played.

        I'm going to keep an eye on it, though.
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