[NTLUG:Discuss] Video Help Needed

[David Simmons]

Hi George,

Have you confirmed that it's not a monitor issue?  Sounds like your 'blank
screen' issue might be caused by Ubuntu trying to drive the monitor at a
higher resolutions/frequency than it can run (which would explain why things
are visible in 'safe mode')?  Just a thought

On a second note...the NVidia driver includes a program called
'nvidia-settings' that will let you setup all sorts of multiple monitors and
set the screen resolution.  Within this program the 'Save to X Configuration
File' might not work if you run it as a normal user....but you can run as
root or just 'Show Preview' of the X file info....copy/paste into the
xorg.conf file manually?

Just some thoughts,

-dave

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, George Lass <george.lass at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> I have a 4 year old Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop with a slightly broken
> nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS video card. By slightly broken I mean that if I
> try to use the "standard" nVidia driver that comes with Ubuntu (10.04) it
> won't display anything.  However if I boot in failsafe mode (which uses the
> frame buffer driver for Xwindows) the display works OK.  There are 2 things
> that I can't do with the frame buffer driver that I would like to be able to
> do though:
>
> 1) change the screen resolution
> 2) use the vga output to a second monitor
>
>
> If anyone knows how to do this using the fb driver please let me know.  I
> have tried the obvious things like setting up multiple Screen/Monitor/Device
> sections and Display Modes in xorg.conf, but this doesn't seem to work.  The
> fb driver crashes the second time it is loaded, and even when only one
> Screen is defined, it complains that the all Modes but the probed virtual
> mode are invalid due to "test failed".
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> George
>
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