[Clug-tech] X11 problem

[Gustin Johnson]

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Mitch Brown wrote:
> Hey gang,
> 
> I installed a fresh copy of Xubuntu onto my machine with an Nvidia card
> in it. The screen resolution is huge and completely wrong for the size
> of monitor. So naturally, I clicked to install the restricted drivers.
> Installed properly, rebooted - thought all would work flawlessly. Wrong.
> 
> It somehow borked my entire xorg.conf, making graphical desktop
> completely imoperable. So I copied the borked version to a backup, and
> then removed the xorg.conf altogether. Upon restarting gdm, it figured
> out there was no xorg to be found, so it somehow spawned me back to the
> way I had it at the start - the wrong resolution. I removed the driver
> using the restricted driver tool, and for now I'm at 800x600.
> 
Can you not change the resolution with the nvidia-settings program?

Is the nvidia module loaded?  lsmod |grep nvidia
If not do dmesg/syslog/messages have anything to say?  /var/log/gdm.log
and /var/log/Xorg.0.log might have some useful info.
> 
> Question
> 
> 1) I have no xorg.conf. At all. I need to make a change to it for
> something else irrelevant to this conversation. But I have none.
> 
> 2) How do I get my proper display drivers up and running, so I'm not
> stuck with this 800x600 stuff?

It depends, the binary drivers can be a little tricky to get going
sometimes.  You also did not mention what version of the nvidia driver
was installed, nor did you say which version of XUbuntu.  "A fresh copy"
is still a little vague.  Also what nVidia card is this?
> 
> 
> If someone can point me in the right direction, that'd be great. Tx.
> 
Personally I have always installed the nVidia driver manually that I
download from nvidia.com.  It tends to be newer than the one packaged
into Ubuntu.  I also can not stand nvidia, now that I have had a taste
of what video *should* be under Linux (hint: Intel and the new radeonhd
driver for new ATI devices).
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