2012-09-01, 11:06
Hi all: long time reader, first time poster ;)
I've spent the past few hours trying to install my new Asus 210 graphics card (Nvidia Geforce 210 chipset) in to my existing XBMCbuntu 11.0 machine without much luck.
The best result I can get it a max resolution of 640x480 in XBMC and LXDE and CPU usage = 100% in XBMC and mouse is very "jumpy" i.e. huge half second or so refresh rate. Worst result = XBMC wont start at all (frozen at pretty black and white "XBMC" screen))
I guess what i'm expecting is an option for "1920 x 1080" when I go to "monitor settings" in LXDE (via "xrandr") and also a 1920x1080 option in XBMC (assumedly these are views to the same function?)
Also expecting that running "nvidia-settings" would work without display an error "... you do not appear to be using the Nvidia X driver" and that it will give some resolution options etc in there maybe?
Sooo... things I've tried:
I've installed "nvidia-settings" and "nvidia-current" using this method:
I'm confident that worked successfully as they're appearing "ticked" in the package manager.
After googling that nvidia settings error mentioned above, found that you have to navigate to full path to run nvidia-xconfig... found that OK, ran that and it created an Xorg.conf file for me under /etc/X11 but now XBMC won't start at all: I'm getting the following error in Xorg.0.log:
The xorg.conf file that nvidia created for me looks like this:
To be sure i re-ran
So I feel I'm making some sort of progress but it's been about 4 hours and I'm about fresh out of ideas. Googling that xorg log error just seems to give errors relating to differing kernel versions between current and when the nvidia module was installed... but will keep searching down that path.
If anyone has any suggestions for a poor old frustrated linux n00b that would be muchly appreciated :)
Thanks, Simon
I've spent the past few hours trying to install my new Asus 210 graphics card (Nvidia Geforce 210 chipset) in to my existing XBMCbuntu 11.0 machine without much luck.
The best result I can get it a max resolution of 640x480 in XBMC and LXDE and CPU usage = 100% in XBMC and mouse is very "jumpy" i.e. huge half second or so refresh rate. Worst result = XBMC wont start at all (frozen at pretty black and white "XBMC" screen))
I guess what i'm expecting is an option for "1920 x 1080" when I go to "monitor settings" in LXDE (via "xrandr") and also a 1920x1080 option in XBMC (assumedly these are views to the same function?)
Also expecting that running "nvidia-settings" would work without display an error "... you do not appear to be using the Nvidia X driver" and that it will give some resolution options etc in there maybe?
Sooo... things I've tried:
I've installed "nvidia-settings" and "nvidia-current" using this method:
Quote:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings
I'm confident that worked successfully as they're appearing "ticked" in the package manager.
After googling that nvidia settings error mentioned above, found that you have to navigate to full path to run nvidia-xconfig... found that OK, ran that and it created an Xorg.conf file for me under /etc/X11 but now XBMC won't start at all: I'm getting the following error in Xorg.0.log:
Quote:[ 18.790] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 18.802] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
[ 18.802] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[ 18.802] (II) Unloading nvidia
[ 18.802] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 18.802] (EE) No drivers available.
[ 18.802]
Fatal server error:
[ 18.802] no screens found
[ 18.802]
The xorg.conf file that nvidia created for me looks like this:
Quote:# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 304.43 ([email protected]) Sun Aug 19 21:28:54 PDT 2012
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
To be sure i re-ran
Quote:sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settingsbut to no avail (i.e. says "already newest version"
So I feel I'm making some sort of progress but it's been about 4 hours and I'm about fresh out of ideas. Googling that xorg log error just seems to give errors relating to differing kernel versions between current and when the nvidia module was installed... but will keep searching down that path.
If anyone has any suggestions for a poor old frustrated linux n00b that would be muchly appreciated :)
Thanks, Simon