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Install driver, reboot, edit nf somehow from boot menu? I'm just not sure.

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I think that this might be the fix but I need to be able to know how to edit the full version of nf. Although I did used to be able to see them. But for some reason now when I run gksu gedit /etc/X11/nf all I can see is this: 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 There are no values there which I can alter. It has been suggested to me to run gksu gedit /etc/X11/nf and then edit my HorizSync and VertRefresh lines into the correct values. This fixes it, but it also uninstalls the driver, leaving me with a measley 800圆00 screen resolution again. The only way that I've found to fix it is to reboot in recovery mode, and select 'Try to fix X server'. When I reboot my system after installing the driver, right about the time that the opening noise plays, the whole screen goes blank and displays a monitor-generated message saying 'out of range'. So I installed the most recent nVidia graphics driver, 180 (although I have since tried it with 177 and 173 as well with the same outcome).

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I figured that installing the restricted graphics driver listed in the hardware drivers menu would give me higher resolution options.

ViewSonic Corporation, headquartered in Brea, California, is a leading global provider of computing, consumer electronics, and communications solutions.

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For a first time linux user I think things are going allright, my system is set up pretty well apart from one thing that is really frustrating! And that is that installing my graphics driver overloads the screen making it blank! HARDWARE: nVidia GeForce 7 Series Shader model 3.0 ViewSonic VE710b (about 4 years old 17 inch non-widescreen) Okay so basically when I installed and set up ubuntu, the highest screen resolution I can get is 800圆00 (which I'm still using now). Hi people, I just got a new computer and I'm running only Ubuntu 8.10 on it (no dual boot). Based on a huge and comprehensive database with more than 13,000,000 driver entries, DriverTuner supports drivers for almost all major computer hardware and device manufacturers such as Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Toshiba, Viewsonic, Nvidia, Intel, Realtek, Brother, EPSON, Compaq, Gateway, and so on. You may download these drivers from respective manufactures' website for free. DriverTuner contains device drivers we collected from the official website of manufacturers.

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However, the system keeps popping up that little icon that tells me drivers are available, despite the fact that I've installed the recent one.You can use DriverTuner to download and update almost any device drivers from any manufacturers such as Viewsonic. There are 3 NVIDIA drivers available, but one is marked as current and recommended, while the others are older versions.

You just have to override the boot options and get it to display. With NVIDIA cards you'll need to install the proprietary driver. I had no way of knowing if it would restart itself again I assumed the first time was completing the installation, but on subsequent attempts I assumed that was no longer the case and that it wouldn't restart on its own. Once booted go to System, Adminstration, Hardware drivers and it should offer an nvidia driver. Select the first grub entry, hit 'e', go to where it says 'quiet splash' and add nomodeset. Now you just have to override the boot options and get it to display. Luckily for you, the first time you left the computer is was actually completing the 'unattended' installation, so that is out of the way. #1, don't hard restart Ubuntu, especially not wubi. When I tried starting Ubuntu in Safe Graphics mode, I got through the initial bash bootup instructions before this occurred. This time I didn't wait, but hard restarted it after a minute oh waiting. I tried restarting into Ubuntu again, got to the Grub menu, and selected Ubuntu before the same thing occurred. The computer sat there, turned on with no monitor, for about half an hour, and when I came back, windows was up.

After restarting and selecting Ubuntu, my monitor (Viewsonic) told me it had no input, and proceeded to stand itself by. I tried installing Ubuntu via the latest Wubi on my HP machine AMD64 processor, NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE graphics card.