Nvida 6300 low res after Ubuntu 8.10 install

[Karl Larsen]

        There is a software called System-Administration-Hardware Drivers that are very useful if you have a video hardware that has high definition drivers written for Ubuntu. I looked and cannot find out who wrote this software but I would like to direct these few words to him/them/her.

        My computer has a nVidia made video hardware. Ubuntu has a low definition nVidia video driver they ship to everyone. Since my computer needs a better definition I am very hurt with the provided 600X600.

        Most that can will load Ubuntu with a LiveCD. This is very good because it allows you to see what your getting before you load it. Then you install it and reboot. It comes up from your hard drive with the 600x600 resolution and you can see things but not well.

        After 5 minutes you see a red arrow saying you have some Updates to load. Also you see the Hardware Drivers and if you click on that first, it comes up and offers you 3 written by nVidia software packages called 83,173 and 177. No idea what these numbers stand for but the page suggests you try 173. So I do and something is wrong with the page. It puts up a long error message telling me what software it needs to use and can't because the software package is too old. It says to please upgrade all these things before using Hardware Drivers.

        For success you need to load the 331 Updates for Ubuntu 8.10 before you try to fix the resolution. This takes about 4 hours with my slow DSL Internet. Now you need to know that you can call up Hardware Drivers at any time. So click on the software and it is there again and you ask for 177. It starts to download the software but the Progress Window shows zero. I can see that something is being sent to me over the Internet but the small Progress window showed nothing happening.

        Then the Progress window disappears your on your own. I first tried clicking the Install button. This appeared to do nothing. But something must have happened because the 177 software was installed. On a reboot it comes up just a tiny line at the top of the screen. Here you use Ctrl-Alt-F1 and drop to a simple level. There you login and go to /etc/X11/ and edit xlog.conf by erasing it. Then you reboot and it comes up again with the 600X600 resolution.

        Repeat all in the above with the 173 software. Then the only one left is 83 and you try that. For some reason the Progress Window worked and the software was installed and started. Now my resolution is 1800x1200 and looks great.

        To the writers of Hardware Drivers, your software is a god-send to those Ubuntu users with video problems. The software needs to be written to use the older and newer software in the LiveCD so your software works with the un-updated software. There needs to be a way to provide the user with which version of the video software to download. For example my computer uses a nVidia 6300 series hardware. There needs to be somewhere this information can be found.

Karl

[oswaldovelez (oswaldovelez)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in nvidia-graphics-drivers-173.
For future reference you might be interested to know that a lot of applications have bug reporting functionality built in to them. This can be accessed via the Report a Problem option in the Help menu for the application with which you are having an issue. You can learn more about this feature at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Karl Larsen (klarsen1)]

  This problem can be displayed on both Hardy and Invincible.
Karl