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xserver-xorg-video-nv package

Not able to start Ubuntu, seems to be some graphics problem

Asked by Kunal Mittal

I installed the latest Ubuntu on my VAIO laptop with i5 processor and it has graphics card GeForce GT 330M. When I start ubuntu the screen turns black.
I ran it in low graphics mode and installed the drivers for my graphics card and after that now its not black but as soon as the OS starts, the screen goes hazy and I cant do anything on the OS.
Rite now the only way to run OS is to run them in low resolution.
Any solutions??

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

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

Thanks

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#2

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Kunal Mittal (erkunal87) said : 		#3

Hi I am sorry for the delayed response. There was some problem with my laptop so now I installed the latest Ubuntu 11.04 version.
Now when I started it, it said cannot find the appropriate hardware and the system will run in traditional mode. Below is the output of sudo lsb_release -a; uname -a; sudo lshw -C display :

------------------------------------ DISPLAY ----------------------------------------------------

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description : Ubuntu 11.04
Release : 11.04
Codename : natty

Linux kunal 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
*-display
description : VGA compatible controller
product GT216 [GeForce GT 330M]
vendor : nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info : pci@0000:01:00.0
version : a2
width : 64 bits
clock : 33Mhz
capabilities : pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration : driver=nouveau latency=0
resources : irq:16 memory: e2000000-e2ffffff memory: d0000000-dfffffff memory: e0000000-e1ffffff ioport:d000(size=128) memory:e3000000-e307ffff
--------------------------------------------------- END ------------------------------------------

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Run:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

and reboot

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Kunal Mittal (erkunal87) said : 		#5

Thanks I will try that and after the reboot will it start in traditional mode?? or the full graphics mode??

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

Either is fine

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Kunal Mittal (erkunal87) said : 		#7

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.