Matthew- well, here's what somehow worked for me and I'm a total novice so I'm afraid I can't go much past this since I no longer have it installed.
open terminal and type: sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf (it creates a blank xorg file. I forget where it put it, which directory) open this 'blank" xorg.conf and pasted in code: Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" BusID "PCI:240:16:0" *Driver* "*nouveau*" EndSection into it and saved it. code from- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1137500 I rebooted and it worked. Not sure how… Richard- does this sound like bad advice? It worked for me. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Matthew <mr...@hotmail.com> wrote: > As far as I know this is the root: > r...@matthew-desktop:~/xserver-xorg-video-nv-2.1.12# > > I then get the following message: > cp: cannot stat `src/.lib/nv_drv.*': No such file or directory > > This is after following the steps you describe above > > -- > [Hardy-Alpha 4 PPC] Screen resolution correct but shifted to the right > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189844 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in X.Org X server: In Progress > Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nv” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > On my PPC G5 iMac 20" built-in display with Hardy-Alpha 4, using the > standard NV driver, the resolution of 1680x1050 is detected correctly but is > shifted to the right by about 1/2 inch, which continues back to the left > hand side. In other words, the trash can and quit icons are mostly cut off > on the right, and appear on the left! > > Unfortunately, the mouse won't go past a boundary on the left hand side to > access them, even if I did want to live with the display shifted like this. > This issue first appeared for me in Gutsy as well, and nothing seems to be > able to move the display back to the left a little. I have tried xrandr, > xvidtune, custom modelines, etc. Only Feisty and below have the 1680x1050 > screen centered properly. With an Imac, there are no manual screen movement > adjustments that can be made. It feels as though something is locking out > any attempt to center the screen, since the resolution seems correct. > > Interestingly enough, if I take a screen-shot and view it, the screen-shot > looks perfect, but isn't centered properly in real life. I've tried the > usual dkpg-reconfigure routines, but it's not that the resolution is > incorrect, it is just that the screen want to dive over to the right and > wrap back to the left.... > > [lspci] > 0000:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV34M > [GeForce FX Go5200] [10de:0329] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0010] > > -- [Hardy-Alpha 4 PPC] Screen resolution correct but shifted to the right https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189844 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
