Nvidia headaches or bad motherboard?

[(=?utf-8?q?=60=60-=5F-=C2=B4=C2=B4?=) -- Fernando]

Olá Young e a todos.

On Saturday 16 August 2008 00:43:17 Young wrote:
> I can't make the Nvidia drivers active, and can't detect the graphics
> hardware or the monitor.
> 
> I just built a new system, and Ubuntu is giving me fits because of
> Nvidia. I wanted to avoid Nvidia, but when you try to find a good
> low/medium cost system with decent performance it seems to be the only
> choice.
> Ubuntu 8.04.01-alternate-amd64 has problems which I described in the
> thread "New System Problem", and couldn't solve.
> ---------------------------------
> I've backed off to 32 bit and installed Ubuntu 8.04.1-desktop-i386.
> Still having problems.
> First its stuck at 800x600 max.
> 
> I tried the "System > Administration > Hardware Drivers" method from
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
> and tried using Envy.
> I have a second machine, a KVM switch and second LCD panel, so I've
> swapped out just about everything. The only thing I haven't done is put
> the new 1680x1050 LCD on the old machine.

I guess you by now have gone by this steps, but i've found that many KVM suck at sending the correct info to the GPU.
When I find this kind of trouble, I just connect the monitor/projector directly to the GPU, let Ubuntu configure it the best way possible, and then reconnect the KVM.
It as always worked for me, but even doing this, sometimes after a power cycle some systems fail, and I have to redo the work.

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