GEForce FX5200 GRAPHICS NOT WORKING IN 8.10

**sharkster2007** · November 24th, 2008

Sorry seps1816

I'd install the 177 Driver (recommended) personally. don't know which one you need for GEForce FX5200, though One of the Nvidia .deb files listed contains a list of cards i will work with in Synaptic before you install it is listed on the description after you double click the .deb file.

Its the one that begins nvidia-glx

Hope this helps

**kulisek** · November 26th, 2008

Although, I have not yet figured out how to get the 3d effects to work, because of issues with NVIDIA driver, I think that after I "disassemble" the contents of the xorg.conf that you have kindly posted, I just may learn something and get to the bottom of my video card issues.
Out of the box, on clean install of Ubuntu 8.10, the resolution is fine, the only thing that I still have not been able to try is the 3d effects. So in the end it is not that big of a deal, whether I get the 3d working or not, it's purely something to tinker around with. Thank you.

**kulisek** · November 26th, 2008

Finally I have managed to get the 3D effects to work and make use of my GEForce FX5200.

Here is what I have for my xorg.conf

Code:

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
	Vendorname	"NEC"
	Modelname	"FE771SB"
	Horizsync	30.0-70.0
	Vertrefresh	50.0-120.0

  modeline  "1280x1024@60" 109.62 1280 1336 1472 1720   1024 1024 1026 1062+hsync +vsync
  
	Gamma	1.0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	Defaultdepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	24
		Virtual	1280	1024
		Modes		"1280x1024@60"	
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	DefaultDepth	24
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load	"glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver	"nvidia"
	Option	"NoLogo"	"True"
EndSection

As you can tell, I have pretty much took only what I needed from your (Terry of Astoria) xorg.conf that you have posted. I changed my monitor model and type accordingly. The next thing that I needed was at least one modline for the time being. For that I had to figure out what my monitor's specs were and that I accomplished by searching on google for my monitor's specs as I don't have the manual on hand.
Once I had the Horizontal and Vertical Syncs and the Refresh Rate values, I created my modline using

http://bohne-lanng.de/spec/linux/modeline/ tool.

Placed the modline in my xorg.conf and bingo.

Thanks again Terry of Astoria

**Sam Lars** · December 7th, 2008

I'm having issues getting an FX5200 to work also. I'm pretty sure it was just using the Ubuntu drivers before the upgrade, and as soon as it rebooted, the graphics died.
The Xorg log is saying that it can't find the kernel modules. I have the kernel modules packages installed and it still refuses to work. I also tried installing the latest driver from Nvidia, but it couldn't find the source, and when I specified the source location, it errored out.
I noticed one of the people that had it working had an AGP card... mine's PCI, maybe that could be part of why some people don't have problems?

**Sam Lars** · December 9th, 2008

I ended up using envy-ng -t, and it worked great.

**seps1816** · December 17th, 2008

Originally Posted by Sam Lars

I ended up using envy-ng -t, and it worked great.

Hey sam I have PCI FX5200 card and its been doing basically what u explained in the post before everytime i install the driver and restart it doesnt load graphics just the text interface so i stop trying to mess with it cause i would have to reinstall ubuntu to get everything working again since i dont really know much about messing with xorg if u could help me to get this working it would be a big help.
Thanks for your time

**Sam Lars** · December 17th, 2008

Well when I rebooted and ended up with the text interface, I did Alt+F1 to log in to there, and then I ran

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

After that, you can do

Code:

startx

to get back into X or you can restart (sudo reboot).

As for Envy, I installed envy-ng. You can find it in Synaptic or by doing

Code:

sudo aptitude install envy-ng

After that, I ran

Code:

sudo envy-ng -t

(I'm pretty sure it needed sudo) and followed the prompts to install the Nvidia driver.
I don't remember if this is exactly what I did, and I'm not on Linux right now, so post back if you have any questions.

**Rodhill** · December 26th, 2008

Well I gave up in the end. I got a GEForce FX6200. Soon as I put it in it worked fine and downloaded the driver. Happy bunny now. Thanks though for all the replies and help.