Hardware Drivers error for nvidia in hardy (2.6.24.19)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Very low resolution screen after enabling nvidia driver in System-
This happened after clean install and all updates on 25/07/08.
X now displays at 640x480 x 50hz - the only other resolution available through System-
According to System-
Poss relevant system info:
Asus P5B-MK motherboard with on-board intel graphics chip (946GZ) that has previously worked fine with both gutsy and hardy;
Intel core 2 duo processor;
NVidia 8500GT graphics card.
cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.24-19-generic (buildd@king) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 21:01:46 UTC 2008
From synaptic the version of nvidia-glx-new that I'm using is 169.12+
lspci output includes
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT (rev a1)
dmesg | grep -i nvidia:
[ 40.955527] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 41.232071] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 169.12 Thu Feb 14 17:51:09 PST 2008
Similar to bugs #251644 and/or #232012? I'm not sure, but I've attached outputs that were relevant to them, i.e.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
dpkg -l linux-* > linux.log
Many thanks in advance for any help.
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-173: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: hardy |
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