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  • Kubuntu 10.04, Geforce 4, low resolution.

    I have installed Kubuntu Lucid on my friend's old desktop with Geforce 4 graphic card. After installing nvidia driver it gives me only 640x480 resolution and lower. How to force nvidia driver to show 1024x768? Probably I need to edit xorg.conf and it will force nvidia driver to use 1024x768, but I don't know how to do it right.

    Please help.

  • #2
    output of `xrandr` please?

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    • #3
      miljan@miljan-pc:~$ xrandr
      Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 640 x 480, maximum 640 x 480
      default connected 640x480+0+0 0mm x 0mm
      640x480 50.0*
      320x240 51.0

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      • #4
        Most likely you did not install it correctly. Since lucid ubuntu is basically incompatible with nvidia/ati installers in pure mode. For ati there is a buildpkg option, but for nvidia you have to use prepackaged drivers from a 3rd party when you don't want to break the system and want latest drivers. Did you use jockey to install it?

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        • #5
          First thing I did after clean install is to install nvidia proprietary driver from hardrware drivers.

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          • #6
            Well maybe just keep nouveau, the card is outdated anyway and nouveau has even kms.

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            • #7
              Desktop effects are very important, thats why my friend whanted to try Kubuntu. Thats why I have to go with proprietary driver. They work very smooth but resolution is problem. I will try to edit xorg.conf somehow. I google a bit and found few "solutions"

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              • #8
                Originally posted by schnelle View Post
                Desktop effects are very important, thats why my friend whanted to try Kubuntu. Thats why I have to go with proprietary driver. They work very smooth but resolution is problem. I will try to edit xorg.conf somehow. I google a bit and found few "solutions"
                You might run the `nvidia-settings` program under sudo

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                • #9
                  Make sure you have the correct driver for the card. NVIDIA produces a legacy driver for any card 5xxx and lower, and GeForce 4 may have been deprecated. Run the following and send us the output:

                  cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep -i "Driver"

                  lsmod | grep -i nv

                  cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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