hi guys, alright desperation has brought me here, i recently upgraded to a P4 3Ghz, a Foxconn P4M800P7B-RS2H, now i know this mobo has onboard grfx[ot]yes, i know, crapy[/ot]now it says in the manual, it's a S3 UniChrome Pro IGP, however here it says it's a Nvidea so, i DLed the Nvidea driver from here but the driver failed to install[ot]i have attached the install log[/ot]how can i id my grfx and locate the correct driver ?i've now being searching net 4 2 days from my Kubuntu Live CD, and i'm ready to throw this :swear:ing PC through the ducking window[ot]but i don't think that will fix it[/ot]hewp pwease, pwease hewp, TIA Edit: i getting a scrambled screen when booted, it does work @ 1280 X 1024 if using the Live CD
That driver download you referenced is to a bundled driver set which includes nVidia, SIS, Intel and Via. To list your video controller through Linux, do the following: Code: lspci |grep VGA Of course, the manual is probably right; if you have a Via northbridge, it'd be an S3 UniChrome Pro IGP. But if you're ever unsure of what drivers to use, you can always use "vesa" as a failsafe until you get it sorted out.
over complicating things, thats not like me yeah, VIA northbridge[ot]vesa only works @ 1024 X 768 then after 2nd reboot screen is "scrambled"[/ot]thankies for pointing me in the right direction:doh: found driver here just rebooting into console mode, let you know if it works
To install the nVidia driver on Kubuntu, you do not need to download the driver from nVidia's website. Just type sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx, then edit your xorg.conf and change the Driver to read Driver="nvidia"
...if it was an Nvidia card. Which it's not. But he probably already has the Unichrome drivers anyway, just needs to choose the right ones.
thankies[ot]i'm not sure it is NVidea but i'll try it anyway[/ot]if not working by monday, i'll flutter my eyelashes at dad, hopefully he'll buy me a PCIe X16 card BTW: thankies for putting up with my noob ish behavior, thanks all Edit: maybe i wont mega's suggestion
