Xubuntu Nvidia won't recognize my monitor!

Irwin Finster · 05-19-10, 03:33 AM

Hi,

just installing xubuntu lucid on an older machine of mine. Everything runs smoothely until I install the nvidia drivers. They won't recognize my monitor and only allow my a 640x480 resolution.

I now thought that maybe I could simply copy the relevant lines for my monitor out of the xorg.conf before installing the drivers, and then past them back into the new xorg.conf. But I now found out after reinstalling that there is no xorg.conf in /etc/X11 before installing the nvidia drivers.

Can anyone help me?

NvFuchs · 05-19-10, 08:54 AM

Hello,

probably your Monitor does not report correct EDID data.

Please read the sticky on how to generate a nvidia bug report and attach it here, so we can see whether this is the cause of your problems.

In that case you could

1) either provide a valid EDID file manually (see appendix b of the nvidia readme)

2) or provide the information in xorg.conf, as an example with modelines. `sudo nvidia-xconfig` will generate a skeleton xorg.conf for you, and there are applications like `gtf` that will help you with writing modelines.

Fuchs

05-19-10, 03:33 AM	#1
Irwin Finster Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 29	Xubuntu Nvidia won't recognize my monitor! Hi, just installing xubuntu lucid on an older machine of mine. Everything runs smoothely until I install the nvidia drivers. They won't recognize my monitor and only allow my a 640x480 resolution. I now thought that maybe I could simply copy the relevant lines for my monitor out of the xorg.conf before installing the drivers, and then past them back into the new xorg.conf. But I now found out after reinstalling that there is no xorg.conf in /etc/X11 before installing the nvidia drivers. Can anyone help me?

05-19-10, 08:54 AM	#2
NvFuchs Registered Fox Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Confoederatio Helvetica Posts: 530	Re: Xubuntu Nvidia won't recognize my monitor! Hello, probably your Monitor does not report correct EDID data. Please read the sticky on how to generate a nvidia bug report and attach it here, so we can see whether this is the cause of your problems. In that case you could 1) either provide a valid EDID file manually (see appendix b of the nvidia readme) 2) or provide the information in xorg.conf, as an example with modelines. `sudo nvidia-xconfig` will generate a skeleton xorg.conf for you, and there are applications like `gtf` that will help you with writing modelines. Fuchs