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Nvidia Graphics issues, Screens found, no useable configuration?

Asked by snaphappyalex

Okay so this has happened with 2 cards now, a GeForce GT210 and a GT430. With a clean install of ubuntu 12.04, both will load fine on the inbuilt drivers, but the minute you install the restricted drivers, or even the actual Nvidia ones (After disabling the Nouveau drivers), ubuntu will get to the loading screen on boot-up and freeze.

A quick scan in "Failsafe Graphics Mode" reveals that for both cards, regardless of drivers (Unless none are installed) it shows up saying that screens were found but there was no useable configuration. the only way it'll run on the card again is by freshly installing ubuntu, but then the card is slow as hell... What am I doing wrong here guys?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

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snaphappyalex (wyverexsdestiny) said : 		#2

snaphappyalex@snaphappyalex-MS-7255:~$ sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep nvidia
  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC]
       vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0 mingnt=2
       resources: memory:d8000000-dbffffff memory:dd000000-ddffffff memory:de000000-de00ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux snaphappyalex-MS-7255 3.2.0-23-generic-pae #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 22:19:09 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.44 Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers

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snaphappyalex (wyverexsdestiny) said : 		#3

I dont have the graphics card in at the moment as she's refusing to boot with it on.
I'm using the onboard at the moment. Does this test need to be ran with the card in? I'm fairly new to linux but want to learn :D

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Did you buy the nvidia card then install it yourself? If so you may need to tweak your BIOS to make the new card the primary display.

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snaphappyalex (wyverexsdestiny) said : 		#5

I've had a look at the bios and I see a setting that allows me to choose between VGA and a few other things, but they dont seem to mention anything I understand. they look like weird port numbers or something

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snaphappyalex (wyverexsdestiny) said : 		#6

Options are EGA/VGA, CGA40, CGA80 and MONO.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#7

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