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Nvidia Gforce MX resolution options lost

Asked by ciaopaulo

Hi,

I seem to have lost the resolution capability for my Nvidia graphics card. I don't know what happened, but I have updates set to automatic.

Machine boots and the login screen is displayed in a low res setting, 640x480 it seems.

When I log in and go to display, using Nvidia driver screen, I can only select between 640x480 or some lower resolution.

How can I get the resolution back to normal?

NVidia Gforce MX with AGP8x graphics card. Ubuntu 9.10.

Thanks,

Paul

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George Standish (george-standish-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Paul,

I am assuming that at 640x480 you still have 3D acceleration (if you don't, then this is a driver issue and the following does NOT apply, and you simply need to reinstall the nvidia driver).

I would recommend you start by verifying that xorg.conf isn't causing the problem (the following will log you out of what your doing):

Open a terminal and type:

   cd /etc/X11
   sudo mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.640
   sudo nvidia-xconfig
   sudo service gdm restart

To undo the above you could just rename the xorg.conf.640 back to xorg.conf (sudo mv xorg.conf.640 xorg.conf)

Best of luck,
George

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ciaopaulo (ciaopaulo) said : 		#2

Hi,
I went for the belt and braces approach - reinstalled nvidia drivers, then logged in and let nvidia create the xorg.conf file.

Problem solved thanks!