This happened to me a couple of months ago, but I got seriously sick and was hospitalized or a while, so I'm just coming back to it, but don't recall all the details of how I go int this situation:
I did a command line update of my out-of-date packages, and that one update included new kernel headers. I think the update automatically rebuild the nvidia drivers, but it's also possible I had to muck with enabling the proprietary drivers in the "additional drivers" applet in kubuntu. That's where I'm fuzzy. I think I was running the 173 series of the driver, and when the machine came back up the graphics were extremely slow (you're talking seconds to paint the screen or swap windows).
I solved it by reinstalling the nvidia-current drivers using:
while I now have full acceleration, my picture on my screen is shifted about a 3rd to the right and 1/10 down from the top (I can't see the right side of the desktop of the taskbar).
The boot screen is aligned on the screen. The startup screen with the "gear" and the little white dots under it is centered, but the two spinny dots and the login screen are off center, so is my kde desktop.
Yesterday I spent 6 hours mucking with my system (mostly blindly I admit), trying to reinstall the nividia-173-updates driver (X wouldn't run saying they were blacklisted), installing the nvidia drivers using their instructions (didn't fix the shifted problem), uninstalled everything again (-uninstall for the nvidia installer, apt-get purge nvidia-* for the kubuntu packages, etc...) and went back to the instructions above, i.e. where I started.
nvidia-settings reports it's using the 304.88 driver, recognizes the display model (Dell 2001FP) and its resolution (1600x1200)
I'm not sure if the following info from xorg.conf is useful:
At this point I'm stuck. for now I'm using my machine through x11vnc, which provides me with a full view of the screen.
My NVIDIA card is a GeForce 7800, running the 64 bit of kubuntu 12.04.
The Monitor is a Dell flat panel 2001FP 1600x1200 running over a DVI to VGA adapter (I have a different computer running into the DVI interface of the monitor).
I did a command line update of my out-of-date packages, and that one update included new kernel headers. I think the update automatically rebuild the nvidia drivers, but it's also possible I had to muck with enabling the proprietary drivers in the "additional drivers" applet in kubuntu. That's where I'm fuzzy. I think I was running the 173 series of the driver, and when the machine came back up the graphics were extremely slow (you're talking seconds to paint the screen or swap windows).
I solved it by reinstalling the nvidia-current drivers using:
Code:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get purge nvidia-current sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic sudo apt-get install linux-image sudo apt-get install nvidia-current jockey-text -e xorg:nvidia_current
The boot screen is aligned on the screen. The startup screen with the "gear" and the little white dots under it is centered, but the two spinny dots and the login screen are off center, so is my kde desktop.
Yesterday I spent 6 hours mucking with my system (mostly blindly I admit), trying to reinstall the nividia-173-updates driver (X wouldn't run saying they were blacklisted), installing the nvidia drivers using their instructions (didn't fix the shifted problem), uninstalled everything again (-uninstall for the nvidia installer, apt-get purge nvidia-* for the kubuntu packages, etc...) and went back to the instructions above, i.e. where I started.
nvidia-settings reports it's using the 304.88 driver, recognizes the display model (Dell 2001FP) and its resolution (1600x1200)
I'm not sure if the following info from xorg.conf is useful:
Code:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "DELL 2001FP"
HorizSync 31.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 7800 GTX"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
My NVIDIA card is a GeForce 7800, running the 64 bit of kubuntu 12.04.
The Monitor is a Dell flat panel 2001FP 1600x1200 running over a DVI to VGA adapter (I have a different computer running into the DVI interface of the monitor).
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