2 Ubuntu Complications

[ljvanarnam]

I have built my own computer recently, and it seems everything works plug and play with Ubuntu, other then 2 things.

My on board sound card (on a NVIDIA 790i ULTRA SLI motherboard) isn't recognized. Everything says I have 1 speaker, witch seems to come out of the sub, but it's 5.1 surround sound. (Card does 7.1) Suggestions how to at least get it to 2.0? and not through the sub?

The second is my graphics card. (BFG Tech 9800GX2 1G) This works just fine, but I don't have my max resolution. My max is 1024 X 768, but it is more then capable of handling over 1600 resolutions.

I'm pretty sure its not the hardware, nor how I have it hooked up, because my computer is tri-boot, and it works just fine in VISTA and XP.

 

[linux_0]

Are you using the restricted drivers for your 9800GX2?

If you are not, try installing the restricted / proprietary drivers or the official driver from nvidia.com

On the sound front check http://www.alsa-project (dot ) org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main to see if your chipset is supported.

Replace (dot) with . in the link.

Sound blaster Live, Audigy and Audigy2 cards are known to work and should sound better than the onboard sound.

You should be able to get the onboard sound to work but it may take some time and effort.

Good luck

 

[ljvanarnam]

Unless I missed something, they have support for the 9300 GE, but I have 9800 GX2, minor details...

 

[linux_0]

The nvidia driver supports all modern nvidia cards.

In the release notes they only list products that they recently added support for, in this case the GeForce 9300 GE and Quadro NVS 420, this does not mean these are the only products the driver supports.

If you have ubuntu amd64 grab http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/180.29/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.29-pkg2.run

otherwise get http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/180.29/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run

The driver needs to be installed via the CLI in runlevel 3 and you need to have it build a custom interface.

Ubuntu has a driver too which is easier to install.

GL

 

[ljvanarnam]

Ok... Slightly new to this... What am I supposed to do?

 

[linux_0]

If ubuntu automatically installed the driver for you, then you do not need the official nvidia driver.

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

/usr/bin/glxinfo -v

glxinfo should show what drivers you're using.