Nvidia Geforce 7300GT, restricted drivers -> failsafe graphics mode

I have no experience with that particular card, but have you tried running sudo nvidia-xconfig? It's helped me out before.

I'm afraid that that produces exactly the same results, that is, low graphics mode which I can only get out of by doing a dpkg-reconfigure.

I'm afraid that that produces exactly the same results, that is, low graphics mode which I can only get out of by doing a dpkg-reconfigure.

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I'm still stuck, I'm afraid. I'd be happy to offer more information to anyone that requests it; I just don't know what else to say.

Hi Andy....I am currently having the very same problem....
Just the same as you have mentioned.
Disabling the restricted driver worked temporarily for me, but enabling it again caused the same error.
I assume that the driver has something to do with this problem.
I have nVdia GeForce 5200 G-Card.
I am trying out all possible combination, without any efect.
Anbody's help would be highly useful.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Andy....I am currently having the very same problem....
Just the same as you have mentioned.
Disabling the restricted driver worked temporarily for me, but enabling it again caused the same error.
I assume that the driver has something to do with this problem.
I have nVdia GeForce 5200 G-Card.
I am trying out all possible combination, without any efect.
Anbody's help would be highly useful.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Andy....I am currently having the very same problem....
Just the same as you have mentioned.
Disabling the restricted driver worked temporarily for me, but enabling it again caused the same error.
I assume that the driver has something to do with this problem.
I have nVdia GeForce 5200 G-Card.
I am trying out all possible combination, without any efect.
Anbody's help would be highly useful.
Thanks in advance.

Sorry, for the repetition, This is the first time I'm posting here.
I clicked the "Add Answer" button 3 times.
Extremely sorry guys.

I have the same problem with Nvidia 8600M GS

I had about the same problem as you with a 7900GS card. What I did, was I started out by disabling the restricted nvidia driver and choosing the nv driver on startup. It went to the GUI, then I rebooted without having to start in lower graphics mode and without having to choose a different driver. After it went to the GUI again, I went to the synaptic package manager and completely removed nvidia-kernel-common. It will ask to remove other componenets and be sure to do that. It asked to reboot, and it did so without a problem being it wasn't even using the nvidia drivers at this point. Since this is all removed, I downloaded ENVY NG to reinstall it all. It reinstalled the nvidia driver and I now have no problem with my graphics. The funny thing about doing it this way is that there aren't any "restricted" drivers when you go to System->Hardware Drivers either. For me, the graphics seemed even smoother than with 7.1. Hope this helps

I had the same problem with a nVidia FX 5200. After booting, xorg.conf was substituted by xorg.conf.failsafe, vesa driver was loaded instead of nvidia and X started in low resolution.
It looks like the system was unable to recognize nvidia driver installation and felt back to failsafe.
After 3 days of searching and trying many strategies that worked only till next boot, I finally found a recipe that last more than a single boot:

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-settings nvidia-new-kernel-source
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-glx-new nvidia-cg-toolkit
You must agree to the removing of linux-generic and linux-restricted-modules-generic if they are installed.
This will remove restricted drivers managing tool but this feature is still very primitive.
To compile kernel modules:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libc6-dev
Go to http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html and download last nvidia driver.
open a console with CTRL+ALT+F1
stop X:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
cd to download-directory and install the driver with:
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_xx-xxx.xx.xx-pkgx.run
(accept all the proposed choices)
restart X to see if you have high resolution again:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
Now restart to see if it lasts.

By the way, if you want to force X to use xorg.conf instead of annoying xorg.conf.failsafe in order to debug xorg.conf prior to fixing this problem, you should, in a console, after stopping X, the best way is:

sudo X -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf -verbose > ~/logfile 2>&1

Have you tried compiling a custom kernel before? I do. Because I thought what the heck is Ubuntu doing, Hardy without the then latest kernel 2.6.26 (Until today, it is still supplied with 2.6.24 ones) so I followed some Internet guide. (By then I do not intent to upgrade to GeForce 7300GT and I use a motherboard with Integrated Graphics that cannot be disabled (Options are 8 MB, 16 MB, 32 MB and 64 MB)

Basically what happened to me is that the system did not even detect the restricted drivers at all. I tried whatever way including reverting back to official kernel with no success, but with low resolution screen. :(

All the rest are similar as yours.

This is my re-configured Xorg and try and see if that helps:

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
 Driver "kbd"
 Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
 Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
 Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Configured Mouse"
 Driver "mouse"
 Option "CorePointer"
 Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Monitor "Configured Monitor"
 Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
 Identifier "Default Layout"
 Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

BTW, I cannot kill X for some unknown reason. It just "hangs" with blinking "_" (Without quotes) and a black screen.

And I have to Ctrl + Alt + Del which produces a beep sound and soon ---- rebooted.

PS: There is not even a login screen / prompt at all.