Monitor not detected

[accountkiller]

Binary package hint: xorg

I installed Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 and my Samsung SyncMaster 793MB was not detected. The only resolutions I got to choose from were 640x480 and 800x600. Editing xorg.conf by hand is too complicated for me. I've attached the manual for the monitor.

I've reinstalled Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 where I configured my monitor with displayconfig-gtk, but it's no longer available in Jaunty Jackalope.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 7 01:06:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xorg 1:7.3+10ubuntu10.2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=sl_SI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686

[accountkiller (account-killer-deactivatedaccount)]

lspci -nn | grep VGA output

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] [10de:02e1] (rev a2)

sudo ddcprobe output

vbe: VESA 3.0 detected.
oem: NVIDIA
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
product: G73 Board - p508h0 Chip Rev
memory: 262144kb
mode: 640x400x256
mode: 640x480x256
mode: 800x600x16
mode: 800x600x256
mode: 1024x768x16
mode: 1024x768x256
mode: 1280x1024x16
mode: 1280x1024x256
mode: 320x200x64k
mode: 320x200x16m
mode: 640x480x64k
mode: 640x480x16m
mode: 800x600x64k
mode: 800x600x16m
mode: 1024x768x64k
mode: 1024x768x16m
mode: 1280x1024x64k
mode: 1280x1024x16m
edid:
edidfail

[accountkiller (account-killer-deactivatedaccount)]

xrandr output

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1400 x 1050
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768 50.0* 51.0 53.0 55.0 57.0 81.0 82.0
   832x624 52.0
   800x600 54.0 56.0 58.0 60.0 62.0 89.0 90.0 91.0 92.0 93.0
   1152x864 59.0 79.0
   1280x960 61.0 75.0 76.0
   1280x1024 63.0 69.0 74.0
   640x480 64.0 66.0 67.0 68.0 100.0 101.0 102.0 103.0
   1400x1050 65.0 70.0 71.0 72.0 73.0 50.0
   1280x800 77.0
   1280x768 78.0
   1152x768 80.0
   960x720 83.0
   960x600 84.0 85.0
   928x696 86.0
   896x672 87.0
   840x525 88.0
   800x512 94.0
   720x450 95.0
   720x400 96.0
   640x512 97.0 98.0 99.0
   640x400 104.0 105.0
   640x384 106.0
   640x350 107.0
   576x432 108.0 109.0
   576x384 110.0
   512x384 111.0 112.0 113.0 114.0 115.0
   416x312 116.0
   400x300 117.0 118.0 119.0 120.0 121.0
   360x200 122.0
   320x240 123.0 124.0 125.0 126.0
   320x200 127.0
   320x175 128.0

[accountkiller (account-killer-deactivatedaccount)]

The monitor is not detected not only in Ubuntu, but in other distributions as well. When I installed Debian and restarted the computer, the screen turned black. All I could see was a green square with "Hz?" in it.

[accountkiller (account-killer-deactivatedaccount)]

In Ubuntu Hardy Heron, Intrepid Ibex and Jaunty Jackalope the desktop shows up. Before Hardy Heron was released, the same had been happening as in Debian.

[accountkiller (account-killer-deactivatedaccount)]

This is my xorg.conf from Jaunty when I installed it.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've posted a new version of the -nvidia driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 185.18.14 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[accountkiller (account-killer-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Bryce,

I installed the new drivers on Jaunty. Here's what I did:

I installed Jaunty updated it, then I added xorg-edgers PPA to my sources.list. I saw some updates and installed them. When I restarted my computer, the screen turned black and "Hz?" appeared on the screen. I couldn't even install the new drivers.

I reinstalled Jaunty, updated it, added xorg-edgers PPA and installed the new nvidia drivers without installing the updates first.
When I restarted the computer, the screen turned black and again "Hz?" appeared.

[accountkiller (account-killer-deactivatedaccount)]

When I installed Hardy Heron, I first configured the monitor and then installed proprietary drivers. Worked well.

Now I've reinstalled Hardy Heron and installed the proprietary drivers without configuring the monitor first. Again the screen turned black and "Hz?" appeared.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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