using nv driver causes widescreen resolutions to fail

[PM]

I'm running the Breezy Preview Release. After installing recent updates, using the "Synaptic Package Manager", my
previously-working display settings broke. I'm running on a Toshiba M30 laptop, with an Nvidia Geforce 5200FX
video card.

Before installing updates, everything worked perfectly. After rebooting, nothing would display correctly - x
still started, but everything was "blocky", fonts and images wouldn't display correctly. Note that I tried
turning down the resolution, from the widescreen to something non-widescreen, and the problem seemed to correct
itself. Switching back to the widescreen resolution from the lower resolution doesn't fix anything, and the
display problems are still present.

Any help?

[Seth Kinast (seth)]

Can you turn display scaling off in your BIOS and see what happens? It sounds
like the widescreen resolution isn't working anymore.

[PM (pwmiller)]

-turned scaling off
-there was no effect, (ie: same problem exists with widescreen resolution).

Also note, I'm using the nv driver, not NVidia's nvidia driver.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

does using Option "NoAccel" help? please attach your full /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

[Zak B. Elep (zakame)]

Hi! Thanks for the bug. =)

Can you please try to reproduce this against the current Dapper flight release, following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingXAutoconfiguration for >= 5.04 and providing us your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (even /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old ), and /etc/X11/xorg.conf , so we can look into the problem further.

Thanks,

Zakame

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Assigning to the Ubuntu-X-Swat team.

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

There has been no response for additional information for over 7months now.

Closing this bug. If you still face this issue with the latest Dapper packages, please reopen the bug providing updated information.

Thank you for reporting this bug.