[mythtv-users] OT but please help if you can. Ubuntu upgrade broke my resolution

[R. G. Newbury]

Damian wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> My projector was a pain in the ass to set up. It literally took me
> months of coming back to it on and off to get the resolution I wanted. I
> finally got a xorg file that worked just right, and then upgrading to
> 8.04 of ubuntu seems to have completely broken my display.
> 
> I've attached a copy of the old xorg file that I've been using fine in
> the past. Is there anything in here that would break 8.04, but work fine
> in 7.10? I've also attached the current xorg.conf which the system has
> modified during my efforts.
> 
> Also (this could be the cause of the problem), the nvidia drivers don't
> seem to like me in 8.04. I've always used Envy yo install my driver and
> it's worked flawlessly. I'm trying to use EnvyNG in 8.04, but it's
> struggling. If I try to install 169.12, it crashed every time. It seems
> to install 96.43.05 ok, but I can still only get 800x600 when I use the
> old xorg file.
> 
> I tried uninstalling all drivers and just enabling the Ubuntu restricted
> driver. It didn't like that, and too me to a low resolution mode.
> 
> I'm now running without any 3d acceleration at 800x600. Any ideas what
> could be going on? By the way, I have a FX5200 card.

If you don't mind doing a little more work installing the nvidia driver, 
you might try the 171.04 version which is available under the 'archives' 
button just under the button for downloading 169.12.

I had NO luck with any 169 series driver on Fedora 8, but 171.04 seems 
fine, and gives me XvMC on my 5200 series card. And 1920x1080 resolution.

Follow the setup on the wiki XvMC page.

Geoff