Thom

Are you using your card on a 810 installation?

Core or MD?

Thanks l3mce

I'll go scratching around a bit until I get another graphics card. Command line here I come ! Fools rush in where angels fear to tread 

OK . Unfortunately I live way out in the bush so will have to wait until I get to a town.

Thom, please suggest a course of action, whatever I try I end up at the blue screen with the AVwizard faied to set up X.
Also lately my screen then starts getting overwritten with with lines of text a la "The Matrix", just slower scroll. Is this what is known as a kernel panic?

Let me just explain my setup: Currently I'm just trying to fire up my core. My core has nothing attached to it on the internal network although the 2nd NIC is installed. It connects to the internet through my external network's router via the other NIC. There is only 1 graphics card - the Nvidia 8400. The mobo has no built in graphics card. Only 1 x 500Gb HD currently - once it's up & running I'll add some TB drives with Raid for storage.

 Thanks for your xorg l3mce. It certainly contains a lot more info in the nvidia & monitor sections than mine which presumably points to a nvidia card problem.

So assuming I have a graphic card problem I want to try this again: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Display_Drivers.

I have tried this previously but ran into various problems which caused this thread to start.

I have since managed to download the new driver as per Zaerc :
Code:
wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/256.53/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.53.run
 (Still cant get pkg1 version shown on the Display Drivers page to work)

However when I do the sh for this I get: No such file or directory

Also when I try telinit 1 my core starts up the Kubuntu screen and then freezes.

So I need to get past these problems.

Any help much appreciated

Thanks for clearing that up Posde.

Now can somebody please comment on my xorg.conf file, I still think it should have more info in it. If the xorg.conf log shows e.g my monitor make, model and even manufacturing date, shouldn't some of that show up in the xorg .conf ?

Oh, btw, couldn't ssh in via 192.168.80.1. had to log in via IP address assigned by my router.

Is that how it should be?

And here's my xorg.conf. This one worries me - shouldn't there be more in here?
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder75)  Fri Mar 12 01:42:27 PST 2010

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

Thanks l3mce - learnt something new tonight

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 6
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIB (ICH10) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
03:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMB368 IDE controller
05:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

I'm on my ubuntu 10.4 server

can I download same and do from there?

I don't have an onboard graphics card

I don't know how to get the contents of lspci up here. I am on a different machine.

But I can see VGA compatible controller [0300]: something:00.0 nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS [10something:06e4](reva1)
part of my screen on the left is cut off

Yes, definitely online
Yes, new install from DVD
No, have never seen the lady

yes, online, downloaded lots of stuff during install, shows on my router.
Yes, new install from DVD
No, never working, never seen the lady, only always the failed to start x

From my xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
Identifier   "Device0"
Driver       "nvidia"
VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation
EndSection