Comment 34 for bug 189844

Matthew-
well, here's what somehow worked for me and I'm a total novice so I'm afraid
I can't go much past this since I no longer have it installed.

open terminal and type:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

(it creates a blank xorg file. I forget where it put it, which directory)

open this 'blank" xorg.conf and pasted in code:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
BusID "PCI:240:16:0"
*Driver* "*nouveau*"
EndSection

into it and saved it.

code from-
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1137500

I rebooted and it worked.

Not sure how…

Richard- does this sound like bad advice? It worked for me.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Matthew <email address hidden> wrote:

> As far as I know this is the root:
> root@matthew-desktop:~/xserver-xorg-video-nv-2.1.12#
>
> I then get the following message:
> cp: cannot stat `src/.lib/nv_drv.*': No such file or directory
>
> This is after following the steps you describe above
>
> --
> [Hardy-Alpha 4 PPC] Screen resolution correct but shifted to the right
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189844
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>
> Status in X.Org X server: In Progress
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nv” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> On my PPC G5 iMac 20" built-in display with Hardy-Alpha 4, using the
> standard NV driver, the resolution of 1680x1050 is detected correctly but is
> shifted to the right by about 1/2 inch, which continues back to the left
> hand side. In other words, the trash can and quit icons are mostly cut off
> on the right, and appear on the left!
>
> Unfortunately, the mouse won't go past a boundary on the left hand side to
> access them, even if I did want to live with the display shifted like this.
> This issue first appeared for me in Gutsy as well, and nothing seems to be
> able to move the display back to the left a little. I have tried xrandr,
> xvidtune, custom modelines, etc. Only Feisty and below have the 1680x1050
> screen centered properly. With an Imac, there are no manual screen movement
> adjustments that can be made. It feels as though something is locking out
> any attempt to center the screen, since the resolution seems correct.
>
> Interestingly enough, if I take a screen-shot and view it, the screen-shot
> looks perfect, but isn't centered properly in real life. I've tried the
> usual dkpg-reconfigure routines, but it's not that the resolution is
> incorrect, it is just that the screen want to dive over to the right and
> wrap back to the left....
>
> [lspci]
> 0000:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV34M
> [GeForce FX Go5200] [10de:0329] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0010]
>
>