Restricted NVDIA driver defaults output to external monitor rather than laptop screen

[Chris Rowson]

Binary package hint: nvidia-glx

When I update using the restricted manager the NVIDIA driver that it installs defaults to the external monitor rather than the laptop's main screen. This means that the first boot up after installing shows a blank screen until I CTRL ALT F2 and change the xorg.conf file manually.

--------------Doesn't Work (Driver Default)----------------------------------

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Generic Monitor"
 Option "DPMS"
 Horizsync 30-70
 Vertrefresh 50-160
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Device "Generic Video Card"
 Monitor "Generic Monitor"
 Defaultdepth 24
EndSection

---------------Does work (excerpt from an old nvidia config file)---------

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: xconfig, VertRefresh source: xconfig
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "CRT-0"
    HorizSync 31.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Videocard0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "TwinView" "1"
    Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1400x1050 +0+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; CRT: 1024x768 +0+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +1024+0; CRT: 800x600 +0+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +800+0; CRT: 640x480 +0+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +640+0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth 24
        Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'll attach the full working xorg.conf file.

[Chris Rowson (christopherrowson)]

Working xorg.conf file for nvidia geforce4 440 go

[Chris Rowson (christopherrowson)]

Working xorg.conf file for nvidia geforce4 440 go

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

This sounds a lot like bug #82312 as mentioned on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia ...

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

Please follow the instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Debugging and attach the appropriate debugging information.

This bug was nominated for Gutsy (and older) but does currently not qualify for a stable release update (SRU) and the nominations were therefore declined.
According the the SRU policy, the fix should already be deployed and tested in the current development version before an update to the stable releases will be considered. With 7.10 now released, that policy applies to this bug. See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates .
The bug is not being closed as work will continue on fixing it for the next release, Hardy Heron (8.04). If the state of this bug should change such that it qualifies for the SRU process, please contact the person who originally declined it and ask them to re-evaluate it. To help improve the state of this bug see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage .

[Chris Rowson (christopherrowson)]

> Please follow the instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Debugging
> and attach the appropriate debugging information.

Well I've shown you a working xorg.conf - and compared it against the
broken, default system generated xorg.conf, what more do you want?
Surely its possible to see the differences between the two, and see
where the default configuration has gone wrong isn't it?

If there was something particular you wanted to know, it might be
helpful to ask for it.

Chris