Not detected nvidia GeForce Go 7400

[Duncan Lithgow]

My system is described here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HP_Pavilion_DV8220EA

Install is Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Herd 4.

A default install from the live CD sets display resolution to 1024x768. Display on this machine is 1440x900.

This piece of X11/xorg.conf suggests that it's not recognising the card at all, that's a regression from 6.10 which set the resolution correctly.

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Generic Video Card"
 Driver "vesa"
 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

As you can imagine the graphics are very slow.

Attempting to install nvidia-glx gives bug #87522
Bug #79016 is with GeForce Go 7300 which is also not originally detected and sets resolution wrong, and uses the vesa driver. Basically these two bugs are pretty identical on the two graphics cards.

As mentioned in bug #87522 running "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" seems to fix everything, the correct driver is used (nv) and the correct resolution is available.

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

Looking at #79016 here is /var/log/Xorg.0.log but 'sudo xresprobe nv' and 'sudo xresprobe vesa' give 'sudo: xresprobe: command not found'.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

did you use safe graphics mode during install? It sets "xforcevesa" on the kernel cmdline, and dexconf picks that up and forces vesa. Could you attach your /var/log/install/syslog?

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

Sorry Timo - I overlooked your comment. Here's the syslog. It works now because I went in and edited xorg.conf myself - but I assume the bug is still there. I will test this with a live CD anytime someone thinks it's fixed.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

You could run 'discover --disable=serial,parallel,usb,ide,scsi --format="%V %M\t%S\t%D\n" video' with a daily livecd-snapshot (if your architecture has one which isn't oversized).

There are a number of similar bugs, where dpkg-reconfigure gets it right... puzzling, as if discover1 isn't available when X is first set up.

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

Do you have a reason to think that this has been fixed? Otherwise I won't bother burning a daily snapshot - unless you think it can gather very useful information for this bug report.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

I'll just mark this as fixed and save you from testing :)

From bug #87522 I got the pci-id of your card, and it wasn't supported on Herd4, but a newer discover-data has been uploaded since.

If you try the Feisty beta (or a pre-beta) livecd and notice that it still is misdetected, please reopen this bug.

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

I'll just confirm this works fine and the GeForce Go 7400 on my system is detected fine.