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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 package

[nvidia-glx] New Nvidia Driver not displaying 1600x1200 resolution

Bug #97069 reported by Boobaloo
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Wishlist
Chris Rose

Bug Description

As I understand it having read it in so many places now. the Nvidia 8776 driver is the best a literally always picking up the screen resolution that u have configured in xorg.conf. I know it because I have tried it on so many distributions now. Ubuntu 6.10, suse 10.2, zod (fedora) etc.

My out has always been to compile the driver by downloading it from nvidia direct and run the bin file which pulls files from nvidia and compiles itself. It plain works ... as soon as you go above 8776 .. every thing works but the hi-resolutions dont work.

Would love to see if there would be a way to down grade the 7.04 driver (provided by the ubuntu development team) for now until these issues are resolved. Am sure they are nvidia issue but they seem to be ignoring the issue.

BTW I have tried compiling the 8776 driver on 7.04 first time ever it fails! so I guess for now Ihave to live with the 2048x1024 till i get my 1600x1200 back.

hope this hells

cheers
Bruce

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 27 13:40:50 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux aquaeng01 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sat Mar 24 23:12:02 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Revision history for this message
Chris Rose (chris-vault5) wrote :

Does the nvidia-glx-legacy package have what you need?

Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20:
assignee: nobody → chris-vault5
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
Revision history for this message
Boobaloo (brucejijones) wrote : Re: [Bug 97069] Re: New Nvidia Driver not displaying 1600x1200

To be honest I did not try that package because I have a Quadro FX 500 card was under the assumption that nvidia-glx is newer cards (mine) and nvidia-glx-legacy was for the older cards ...

am willing to try it if you need me too?

just wish the 8776 binary was in the package list so that I could install that but only there for 6.10 :(

Let me know what if anything u want me to do/try and I will give it a go for you

cheers
Bruce

----- Original Message ----
From: Chris Rose <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:00:28 PM
Subject: [Bug 97069] Re: New Nvidia Driver not displaying 1600x1200

Does the nvidia-glx-legacy package have what you need?

** Changed in: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: None => linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20

** Changed in: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Chris Rose
       Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info

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New Nvidia Driver not displaying 1600x1200
https://launchpad.net/bugs/97069

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Revision history for this message
Chris Rose (chris-vault5) wrote : Re: New Nvidia Driver not displaying 1600x1200

Sorry, I don't know a lot about the Nvidia drivers. Its worth a shot, I guess.

Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

Boobaloo:
NVIDIA don't support the 8776 driver any more so neither will Ubuntu in any new release. I'm afraid Ubuntu are at the mercy of NVIDIA because they don't have the source.

Could you attach the following files:
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
dmesg.txt produced by
dmesg > dmesg.txt

Could you add the output produced by the following commands to this bug:
dpkg -l nvidia-\* | grep ii
lspci | grep -i nv

Revision history for this message
gotone (dan-got-one) wrote :

I was having a problem with 1600x1200..adding this to the screen section in xorg.conf made it work.

 Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI"
    Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
    Option "useEDID" "FALSE"
    Option "ModeValidation" "NoEdidDFPMaxSizeCheck, NoVesaModes"

Revision history for this message
Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 is obsolete

This package has become obsolete so we're closing out the bug report as WONTFIX.
Thanks for reporting it though!

Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20:
status: Incomplete → Won't Fix
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