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Dear ubuntu team and users

I installed ubuntu 20.04 Desktop 64 system. I use DEll PRECISION T5400 workstation. After installation I have got very low resolution. I have tried :

  1. To change this, increase this resolution from Display options in Ubuntu but I found just one resolution 640 X 480. Nothing more!!!
  2. I followed the posts on net of similar problems but I got nothing instead I got more troubles some times.

Details:

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [Quadro NVS 290] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [Quadro NVS 290]
    Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau
03:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Upstream Port (rev 01)
Tom Newton
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king fox
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  • Please [edit] your question and add output of lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' terminal command. – Pilot6 Oct 05 '20 at 13:10
  • google(T5400) => Chipset Type: Intel 5400 and "NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290" w 256MB DDR2 SDRAM on a plugin card. (https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-precision-t5400-quad-core-intel-xeon-processor-e5410-2-33ghz-2x6m-l2-1333-80gb-hdd-1gb-ram/) - install nVidia drivers? – Hannu Oct 05 '20 at 13:13
  • See if this works for you: https://askubuntu.com/a/329072/100356. If it does, you can make it permanent by creating an xorg.conf file: https://askubuntu.com/a/330162/100356 – Enterprise Oct 05 '20 at 18:11

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Have you tried installing 3rd party drivers:

1: Open "System Settings" -> "Additional drivers"

2: Select "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current)" and click "Activate"

3: Reboot

Jonathan Jobby
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  • unfortunately, I used NVIDIA from additional drivers and when I reboot it gives me black screen with /dv/sda8 :clean ....... – king fox Oct 06 '20 at 06:40
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Have you tried to update your bios ?

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/nvidia-linux/32825-nvidia-quadro-nvs-290-and-linux-cannot-make-it-work

Apparently, the bios of this model plays an important role in how the card will be recognized and operated, and therefore, on the functioning of the nvidia drivers. The graphics card being a G86 variant (similar to 8500GT).

spacering
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  • a link is never an answer by itself. What about when the link is gone? If that link has some helpful info it should be posted in the answer. You can have the link as reference but not just the link. – David Oct 20 '22 at 13:39
  • Yes, you're right despite the fact i'm new to faskUbuntu's using, i should have been smarter! I'm updating my answer right now. – spacering Oct 21 '22 at 02:23