Comment 19 for bug 207209

I have the same problem, but with a different PCI ID: an AGP 7600GT
nv supports this card; putting Driver "nv" in xorg.conf brings up a 1680x1050 desktop with the size (in mm) detected correctly by DDC. With the default xorg.conf not specifying a driver, X chooses VESA.

sudo lspci -vvnn:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7600 GT [10de:02e0] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Unknown device [1682:2249]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 64 (1250ns min, 250ns max)
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 Region 2: Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Expansion ROM at fd000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
  Status: RQ=256 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=3 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW+ AGP3+ Rate=x4,x8
  Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>

 I've attached my Xorg.0.log, in case it will somehow be useful.

I'm running from the Hardy beta i386 Desktop liveCD (on a USB stick w/ isotostick.sh) with updates installed on the livesystem tmpfs:
/var/log/aptitude snippets:
[UPGRADE] xserver-xorg 1:7.3+10ubuntu7 -> 1:7.3+10ubuntu10
[UPGRADE] xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu5 -> 2:1.4.1~git20080131-
1ubuntu9
[UPGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2.1.7-1 -> 1:2.1.8-1ubuntu1

[UPGRADE] grub 0.97-29ubuntu18 -> 0.97-29ubuntu21
[UPGRADE] hdparm 7.7-1ubuntu1 -> 8.6-1ubuntu1
[UPGRADE] hwtest 0.1-0ubuntu6 -> 0.1-0ubuntu8
[UPGRADE] hwtest-gtk 0.1-0ubuntu6 -> 0.1-0ubuntu8
[UPGRADE] initramfs-tools 0.85eubuntu34 -> 0.85eubuntu36
[UPGRADE] libuuid1 1.40.3-1 -> 1.40.8-2ubuntu2
[UPGRADE] lshw 02.12.01-2 -> 02.12.01-2ubuntu1
[UPGRADE] pciutils 1:2.2.4-1.1ubuntu2 -> 1:2.2.4-1.1ubuntu3
[UPGRADE] python-central 0.6.0ubuntu2 -> 0.6.1ubuntu2
[UPGRADE] udev 117-4 -> 117-8
[UPGRADE] upstart 0.3.9-1 -> 0.3.9-2
[UPGRADE] upstart-compat-sysv 0.3.9-1 -> 0.3.9-2
[UPGRADE] upstart-logd 0.3.9-1 -> 0.3.9-2
[UPGRADE] util-linux 2.13.1-2ubuntu1 -> 2.13.1-5ubuntu1
[UPGRADE] util-linux-locales 2.13.1-2ubuntu1 -> 2.13.1-5ubuntu1
[UPGRADE] x-ttcidfont-conf 26 -> 27
[UPGRADE] xbase-clients 1:7.3+10ubuntu7 -> 1:7.3+10ubuntu10
[UPGRADE] xkb-data 1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1ubuntu2 -> 1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1ubuntu5
[UPGRADE] xorg 1:7.3+10ubuntu7 -> 1:7.3+10ubuntu10
[UPGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1:1.3.0-4ubuntu3 -> 1:1.3.0-4ubuntu4

 Then I restarted X with CTRL+ALT+backspace.

/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-nv/changelog.Debian.gz shows the change that fixed the original submitters problem, but it doesn't fix my problem.

 I already have Debian installed on this machine (where I use nvidia's binary-only stuff), but I could find a spare partition to do an Ubuntu install if you think this really was already fixed for my hardware. I'd rather not, because Ubuntu's kernels don't include the badram patch, and one of the memory sticks in this machine has a couple bad bytes. So I'd have to take out the flaky memory stick until I had a badram kernel ready to boot the Ubuntu system to avoid the risk of disk corruption. (not an issue running from the livecd.)

 Thanks