After installing nvidia-glx-173 it fails to use a sreen resolution higher than 800X600

[John Vivirito]

After installing nvidia-glx-173 for my nvidia FX 5200 card i cant get a resolution higher than 800X600 i will attach the Xorg logs all four of them but basicly it says it cant use than lists the resolutions it cant use.
I had to use nvidia-xconfig to configure nvidia since just installing the drivers and than restarting X gdm failed to load (i cant think of error at this time since i am using the back up i had without 3D.

Maybe we can reconfig X after installing drivers. something like having nvidia-xconfig ran once drivers are installed or give dialog to restart X and during X restart run it.

Nvidia-glx-173 = 173.14.12-1-0ubuntu2
Xorg = 7.4~2ubuntu1 to be exact Installed: 1:7.4~2ubuntu1

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

The 2 logs above seem not to have anything about nvidia in them from what i can see. the following 2 logs do have nvidia stuff in them

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Here are the xorg.conf files one with nvidia and one without. this one is without nvidia, it works with correct res modes.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

sorry i dont have the one using nvidia's Xorg however i have one named *.failsafe that i am attaching

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

If anything else is needed please let me know

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

output of lspci that pertains to my nvidia card:

02:09.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

I need to see your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and a log which shows what happens when you try to load the nvidia driver rather than nv.

Why didn't you use either Jockey or EnvyNG to install the driver? They will configure the xorg.conf for you.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

i thought the -173 package was done by envy but i will try with envy.
i never tried to use nv please see my 2 xorg.conf files i attached
the above xorg.conf* files are the ones that are needed since the one im using at this time is not using nvidiia drivers since i cant use 800X600 personally.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Jockey has been crashing on Intrepid and i didnt know that it installs drivers.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

output from envy
wasnt sure of the command but looked like envyng -g but not sure atm ill read help page

gnomefreak@Development:~$ envyng-gtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/envyng-gtk/envynggtk.py", line 7, in <module>
    from Envy import objects
ImportError: cannot import name objects
gnomefreak@Development:~$ envy
bash: envy: command not found
gnomefreak@Development:~$ envyng
ERROR: you need to provide a parameter:
   "-t" for the textual interface
   "-g" for the GTK frontend
   "-k" for the QT4 frontend
   "--uninstall-all" to completely remove what EnvyNG has done
gnomefreak@Development:~$ envyng -g
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/envyng-gtk/envynggtk.py", line 7, in <module>
    from Envy import objects
ImportError: cannot import name objects
gnomefreak@Development:~$

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

using menu entry for envy but still crahsing

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

i was trying to use jockey but it fails to mark them as used i didnt realize that that was jockey intreface

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

gnomefreak@Development:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Monitor "Configured Monitor"
 Device "Configured Video Device"
 DefaultDepth 24
EndSection

Section "Module"
 Load "glx"
 Disable "dri2"
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "nvidia"
 Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

the above was after trying jockey again ill restart X and let you know what happens

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

using jockey seemed to have worked.
shouldnt installing it the way i did also work? using nvidia-xconfig should set up /etc/X11/xorg.conf to set up xorg.conf using the correct settings

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

as regards EnvyNG, the gtk version is broken. You should use either the KDE version (sudo apt-get install envyng-qt) or the textual interface.

As regards Jockey, the fact that it doesn't mark the driver as in use ok since the driver cannot be loaded.

Type:
sudo /usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh

and in the same directory as the one from which you type the command you will find an nvidia-bug-report.log. Please attach it.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Please don't use nvidia-xconfig. It is better to rely on the tools available in Ubuntu. These tools (both Jockey and EnvyNG) now use X-Kit (an xorg parser).

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

no longer an issue when using jockey or envy*