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Video driver not working for ASUS M2V-MX-SE motherboard

Asked by Vytheeshwaran Vedagiri

Hi all.
I was using Windows XP earlier. I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop PC today. The video driver not working for my ASUS M2V-MX-SE motherboard. I tried opening the executable file in the zip folder and got the following message:

Archive: /home/eshwaranv/.cache/.fr-usJAWF/2K_XP32/ASUSSETUP.EXE
[/home/eshwaranv/.cache/.fr-usJAWF/2K_XP32/ASUSSETUP.EXE]
  End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/eshwaranv/.cache/.fr-usJAWF/2K_XP32/ASUSSETUP.EXE or
          /home/eshwaranv/.cache/.fr-usJAWF/2K_XP32/ASUSSETUP.EXE.zip, and cannot find /home/eshwaranv/.cache/.fr-usJAWF/2K_XP32/ASUSSETUP.EXE.ZIP, period.

Tried looking up for Linux-based drivers and was unable to find any. The audio is working good. The video (especially while scrolling) is very poor.

Please help!

Thanks!
Vytheeshwaran Vedagiri

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

The file you have is for windows. Ubuntu is not windows, it is a distribution of Linux so the file is of no value to you.

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

Thanks (Please don't let it be some intel rubbish)

The scrolling is poor due to the system not having video drivers setup properly.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

Please don't use win executable on linux they are made for another operative system...

Ubuntu linux use different method to setup devices...

So please give us the result of this terminal (Applications→accessories→Terminal) command...
(to avoid errors select from here and copy into terminal then press enter)

lsb_release -rd; lspci | grep -i vga

select terminal result, right click with mouse select copy, then paste here.

New to Ubuntu: read the Ubuntu Manual, it's very informative: http://ubuntu-manual.org/
Click on the "download Button" to download the latest PDF version.
The online help https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/index.html

Relax and fun:
http://planet.ubuntu.com/ and Full Circle Magazine http://fullcirclemagazine.org/

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Vytheeshwaran Vedagiri (vytheeshwaranv) said : 		#3

@ actionparsnip
This is the output I got for sudo lshw -C display

PCI (sysfs)
SCSI

  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: K8M890CE/K8N890CE [Chrome 9]
       vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 11
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=64 mingnt=2
       resources: memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:fbef0000-fbefffff(prefetchable)

Thanks!

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Vytheeshwaran Vedagiri (vytheeshwaranv) said : 		#4

@marcobra. The following is the output that I got for lsb_release -rd; lspci | grep -i vga

Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE/K8N890CE [Chrome 9] (rev 11)
eshwaranv@Eshwar-Desktop:~$ ^C

Thanks!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Great these things can be a pain. I doubt you will get 3D effects with that chip but we can certainly get you better 2D performance.

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-via/+question/117508

May help

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emerald_knight (campy-tv-batman-phill) said : 		#6

I'm having the same issue with Ubuntu 12.04. I've found Linux Drivers, but there not set up for Ubuntu. I can't get them to install. Here are the drivers. http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=M2V-MX&p=1&os=

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