Do I have a bad video driver? HP XBMC

Asked by Jim Miller

Hello, been using Ubuntu for a very little while, so please bare with me. I have an HP compaq Pesario SR2023WM that i have stripped and loaded ONLY ubuntu onto. My goal was to use this computer hooked up to a Toshiba 72 DLP to run XBMC and play around on youtube. I'm having trouble getting it to display correctly. I've loaded Ubuntu 12.04 and logged in. It's close but still not great. I've installed Cardio Dock, and of course i have unity, and none of them will display right at all. The XBMC jruns perfect though, but everything else is zoomed WAY TO FAR in. Anyone know of a good driver or tweak for this set up or am I just boned????

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

If you are using XBMC, why do you need cairodock? It is an extra process using extra resources and you just won't see it if you are using XBMC....

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Jim Miller (jim-miller) said :
#2

The Cardio Dock is the desktop that my wife likes best so, if she wants to check her e-mail while she's on here, she'll be comfortable with it.

The out put is;
No LSB Modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release 12.04
codename: precise
linux *user data* 3.2.0-31-generic-pae #50-Ubuntu SMP fir Sep 7 16:39:45 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

That's all... i guess that ma not be helpfull since it found nothing, but then again i guess that could be the issue.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

And the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

Thanks

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Jim Miller (jim-miller) said :
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The output is;
* -display
description: VGA compatible contoller
product: C51 [GeForce 61500 LE]
physical id: 5
bus info: pci@0000:005.0
version:a2
width: 64 bits
clock: 66mhz
capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_lis rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:40000000-4001ffff

And that's it... ring any bells for you???

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Jim Miller (jim-miller) said :
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The output is;
* -display
description: VGA compatible contoller
product: C51 [GeForce 61500 LE]
physical id: 5
bus info: pci@0000:005.0
version:a2
width: 64 bits
clock: 66mhz
capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_lis rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:40000000-4001ffff

And that's it... ring any bells for you???

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Jim Miller (jim-miller) said :
#6

HELP

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#7

ok and the output of:

dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

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Jim Miller (jim-miller) said :
#8

ii nvidia-173 173.14.35-0ubuntu0.2
                                      NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernal module and VDPAU 1
ii nvidia -common 1:0.2.44
                                      Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
rc nvidia-current 295.40-0ubuntu1.1
                                      NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernal module and VDPAU 1
rc nvidia-settings 295.33-0ubuntu1
                                      Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver.

That's the display I get. If it helps at all, I know that the only display option available under settings is 'Laptop'. For whatever reason, it thinks it's in a laptop rather than in a desktop with a 72 inch DLP TV display.

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Jim Miller (jim-miller) said :
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Sorry for the display of the last message, I'm typing all of this and it wouldn't let me maintain the format I was trying to ype it in.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#10

sudo dpkg -P nvidia-current nvidia-settings
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Reboot to test

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Jim Miller (jim-miller) said :
#11

Did that. Still not right. No visual change at all. Opened Nvidia Settings and it states that my driver is too old to work with it.

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Jim Miller (jim-miller) said :
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FIXED!!!!! Thanks for your help!!!! After doing everything above, there was no change, but on a hunch I went to aditional drivers again and installed the newest one and rebooted again. Then, everything looked perfect!!!! Thanks for the help!!!!! Something ou had me do made it work with that driver this time and I'm thankful.