[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 8.04 "Low Graphics Mode" with nvidia 8600

[Damian]

Man, that sounds confusing. I understand most of the words but none of 
the commands. I'll try to dig around google to decipher what's going on.

Glad you've found a solution Christopher! Thanks for sharing it.

Damian


Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> OK, folks. Thanks for all your help. Especially for those of you who are
> having similar problems, I found the solution was to use irqprobe in my
> kernel options. This option worked for me by itself, but some of us may
> also need noapic. In my case, I deduced from my bios settings that the
> PATA interface was routed through the PCIE bus. The video card was
> conflicting with the ATA devices on that bus. I noticed this when the
> Gutsy installer failed to recognize my cdrom, which led me to turn off
> splash and actually look at the boot process. I saw lots of errors to do
> with USB and ata, like this:
> 
> ata1.00: failed to set xfer mode (err_mask=0x40)
> 
> So I tried the 8.04 install again, booting with the irqprobe option, and
> sure enough those errors went away and my card started working again.
> 
> Hope this helps, and thanks again.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 10:26 +0100, Damian wrote:
>> Christopher M. Jones wrote:
>>> I tried to upgrade my 7.10 Mythbuntu to 8.04 last week. Since then I've
>>> been around and around in circles over this problem. My googling hasn't
>>> turned up any definitive answers. 
>>>
>>> Using an nvidia 8600 card mythbuntu starts up in "Low Graphics Mode".
>>> This card worked fine under the previous 7.10 version. In frustration I
>>> tried installing etch, and had the same problems. It seems the card
>>> simply isn't recognized.
>>>
>>> Has anyone had this problem? I'm willing to post whatever message output
>>> might be helpful, if there is anyone here who is willing to help.
>>> Surely, someone on this list must be running a similar setup.
>>>
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>> I'm having the same problem. I have a 5200 card and it's always worked 
>> fine* in previous versions of ubuntu. Since upgrading to 8.04, I can't 
>> get my resolution back. Using EnvyNG, it crashes if I try to install 
>> 169.12. If I install the 96.43.05 driver, then it seems to install ok, 
>> but doesn't give me my resolutions back.
>>
>> I've seen one thread suggesting that the 171.04 works ok, and another 
>> suggesting that installing the latest Ubuntu updates fixed things. I've 
>> not had time to try either yet as I've just been away for the weekend.
>>
>> Pressure's on to sort it this week though. My daughter is having a 
>> cinema party. Myth's head may be for the chop if I don't get the system 
>> back on track! :-)
>>
>> Damian
>>
>> * It took me months to get xorg to give me the resolution I wanted, but 
>> been perfect since then. Even the 'wrong' resolutions I had in the past 
>> were high, I just couldn't get wide screen working properly for a while. 
>> Nothing much is available at the moment though,
> 
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