[nzlug] Ubuntu and Video Drivers

[Mark Foster]

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Rob Connolly wrote:

> On Fri, June 13, 2008 17:52, Mark Foster wrote:
>
>> The latest round of Ubuntu (8.04) updates killed video on my Compaq
>> Deskpro EN - it now won't run above 800x600.
>>
>
> Yep, mine did this too (nvidia 6600), there seem to be another round of
> updates this morning so I'm going to try them! I went back to the -17 kernel
> for now, I still had to edit xorg.conf to get my higher resolution back
> though.
>

Oh the irony.
This afternoon kicked the box into life to take a further look at this and 
the screen resolution is back to normal.. and I havn't changed any thing!

Grabbed this from dmesg:

[  134.643178] agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset.
[  134.661154] agpgart: detected 4MB dedicated video ram.
[  134.732415] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[  134.768234] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x44000000

My Xorg.conf file wasn't very helpful either:

Section "Device"
         Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
         Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
         Identifier      "Default Screen"
         Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
         Device          "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
         Identifier      "Default Layout"
         Screen          "Default Screen"
EndSection


... which leaves me at a loss in terms of discovering exactly where the 
screen res is configured, this is different to the Xubuntu (7.x) I was 
running previously...

However glad to hear it wasn't just me who experienced oddness here.

Mark.