<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Well it was time for a new TV in the kids play room so I got a 42 in Panasonic. My old front end/back end combo resides there only as a back end, so it was time to recommission the front end on it. I knew that the video card there was bad or going bad because when it was strained with a DVD it ended up losing one of the colors and had a Blue tint until a hard reboot.<br><br> I did my research and a good 1 gb Nvidia card came up to the front and I got the VGA ZOTAC|ZT-20203-10L GT220 1G R. I figured the hard part would be getting the hdmi sound to work, but I am always up for a challenge.<br><br>My problem is the video. I cant get it to work. I am running ubuntu 10.10 and when there is not xorg.conf I get graphics, but the screen size is bigger than the monitor. I lose about a inch on all sides so I can not see any of
the top applications menu in X. In myth I lose some of the menus also. In this mode Nvidia drivers are not loaded, and I cant seem to figure out how to adjust the screen size.<br><br>a quick "nvidia-xconfig" gives me a good xorg.conf file and a roobot should give me control and the nvidi driver I installed (ubuntu and via the latest nvidia drivers). No luck. I end up with a text login prompt after gdm fails on a reboot. Bellow is the xorg log showing the reason for the failure:<br><br>[ 29.878] (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is<br>[ 29.878] (II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.<br>[ 30.078] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device PCI:1:0:0. <br>[ 30.078] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Please check your system's kernel log for additional error<br>[
30.078] (EE) NVIDIA(0): messages and refer to Chapter 8: Common Problems in the<br>[ 30.078] (EE) NVIDIA(0): README for additional information.<br>[ 30.078] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!<br><br><br>Here is the kern.log <br><br>Dec 26 21:50:23 myth-server kernel: [ 13.172377] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.<br>Dec 26 21:50:23 myth-server kernel: [ 13.172382] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint<br>Dec 26 21:50:23 myth-server kernel: [ 14.088530] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16<br>Dec 26 21:50:23 myth-server kernel: [ 14.088538] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64<br>Dec 26 21:50:23 myth-server kernel: [ 14.088543] vgaarb: device changed decodes:
PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem<br>Dec 26 21:50:23 myth-server kernel: [ 14.088668] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 260.19.06 Mon Sep 13 06:35:06 PDT 2010<br><br><br>I googled "gt 220 and Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device" and found a guy with a similar problem, but it was never solved.<br><br>Well, I figure I gave 2 options. 1. Get a different new video card, or 2. Try a fresh install. Any suggestions. I have tried, new power source, Ubuntu Nvidia driver, Nvidia's driver 260.19.29.<br><br>Thanks for the help<br>P.J.<br> <br></td></tr></table>