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NVIDIA GeForce2 MX-400 not autodetected

Bug #91222 reported by Andris Sprūds
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Bug Description

The NVIDIA GeForce2 MX-400 is not being autodetected on Feisty. Instead, Ubuntu uses the ugly vesa driver.

The autodetection (nv should be used) worked on releases prior to Feisty.

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Andris Sprūds (aspruds) wrote :
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Andris Sprūds (aspruds) wrote :
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Andris Sprūds (aspruds) wrote :
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Andris Sprūds (aspruds) wrote :
description: updated
description: updated
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magilus (magilus) wrote :

Xorg is using the vesa driver because it does not support your video card (or autodetection fails).

Which video card do you use?

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Andris Sprūds (aspruds) wrote :

Hi, it's ancient NVIDIA card - GeForce 2 MX, AGP 4X with 64MB memory. It seems that Feisty does not get along with it. I also tried to install nvidia restricted drivers for it (sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy), but then X would crash at startup (had to copy back the old xorg.conf from the backup).

I have this problem only on new Feisty installation. When I updated from Edgy to Feisty (apt-get dist-upgrade, etc.), there was no such problems.

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Andris Sprūds (aspruds) wrote :

Update: according to the information printed on system startup, it's NVIDIA GeForce2 MX-400, Bios version 3.11.01.48MB6. Hope this helps.

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magilus (magilus) wrote :

Okay, so auto detection fails with Feisty.

Just a work around for you:

In xorg.conf replace

 Driver "vesa"

with

 Driver "nv"

Changed in xorg:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
description: updated
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Andris Sprūds (aspruds) wrote : Re: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX-400 not autodetected on Feisty

Thanks! It works now.

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Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Looks like this is not the only card that makes problems. See Bug #87003.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

The newest discover-data release should fix this. Please retry with a daily livecd-snapshot or the beta which is released next week, and reopen if it still fails.

Changed in xorg:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Andris Sprūds (aspruds) wrote :

Still didn't work on March 17 daily build. Feisty uses the same old 'vesa' driver both when booted from LiveCD/installed on HDD. Did March 17 build include the updated discover-data? Should I also test beta release when it becomes available?

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magilus (magilus) wrote :

Reopening then.

Changed in discover-data:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
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Kyle McMartin (kyle) wrote :

Fixed in gutsy discover-data.

Changed in discover-data:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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