I had to include the directive 'nomodeset' during and after installation of Ubuntu 22.04 due to screen corruption/artifacts that couldn't display any useful information for navigation.
The main downside with this, is that the resolution is stuck at 640x480, whereas the monitor (Hanns G HW223D) support 1680 x 1050. Holding the 'Windows Flag' key on the keyboard allowed me to move window around to view and select necessary button such as next or back.
I followed the instruction here to create a new resolution using xrandr and got the response
Configure crtc 0 failed.
The following were the outputs displayed as I typed each command, I also tried without '-r'
DS3:~$ cvt -r 1680 1050 60
# 1680x1050 59.88 Hz (CVT 1.76MA-R) hsync: 64.67 kHz; pclk: 119.00 MHz
Modeline "1680x1050R" 119.00 1680 1728 1760 1840 1050 1053 1059 1080 +hsync -vsync
Append last line to xrandr
DS3:~$ sudo xrandr --newmode "1680x1050R" 119.00 1680 1728 1760 1840 1050 1053 1059 1080 +hsync -vsync
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Monitor name is given as default instead of DVI-D-0; graphics card is connected with a 'DVI-D single link' cable.
DS3:~$ xrandr | grep -e " connected [^(]" | sed -e "s/\([A-Z0-9]\+\) connected.*/\1/"
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
default connected primary 640x480+0+0 0mm x 0mm
It seems it took a while for the maximum resolution to be recognized
DS3:~$ xrandr -q
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 640 x 480, maximum 640 x 480
default connected primary 640x480+0+0 0mm x 0mm
640x480 0.00*
1680x1050R (0x535) 119.000MHz +HSync -VSync
h: width 1680 start 1728 end 1760 total 1840 skew 0 clock 64.67KHz
v: height 1050 start 1053 end 1059 total 1080 clock 59.88Hz
DS3:~$ sudo xrandr --addmode default 1680x1050R
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
DS3:~$ sudo xrandr --output default --mode 1680x1050R
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 640x480 (desired size 1680x1050)
Maximum resolution is now recognized
DS3:~$ xrandr -q
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 640 x 480, maximum 1680 x 1050
Failure of xrandr to assingn new resolution
DS3:~$sudo xrandr --addmode default 1680x1050R
DS3:~$sudo xrandr --output default --mode 1920x1080R
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed
Additionally, the following does not work:
DS3:~$ xrandr -s 1680x1050R
Failed to change the screen configuration!
DS3:~$ xrandr -s 1680x1050
Failed to change the screen configuration!
Output of --verbose, and as noted earlier I tried cvt without the '-r'
DS3:~$ xrandr --verbose
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 640 x 480, maximum 1680 x 1050
default connected primary 640x480+0+0 (0x524) normal (normal) 0mm x 0mm
Identifier: 0x523
Timestamp: 7970560
Subpixel: horizontal rgb
Clones:
CRTC: 0
CRTCs: 0
Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
filter:
_MUTTER_PRESENTATION_OUTPUT: 0
non-desktop: 0
supported: 0, 1
640x480 (0x524) 0.000MHz *current
h: width 640 start 0 end 0 total 640 skew 0 clock 0.00KHz
v: height 480 start 0 end 0 total 480 clock 0.00Hz
1680x1050R (0x535) 119.000MHz +HSync -VSync
h: width 1680 start 1728 end 1760 total 1840 skew 0 clock 64.67KHz
v: height 1050 start 1053 end 1059 total 1080 clock 59.88Hz
1680x1050_60.00 (0x54e) 146.250MHz -HSync +VSync
h: width 1680 start 1784 end 1960 total 2240 skew 0 clock 65.29KHz
v: height 1050 start 1053 end 1059 total 1089 clock 59.95Hz
1680x1050_30.00 (0x55b) 67.750MHz -HSync +VSync
h: width 1680 start 1736 end 1896 total 2112 skew 0 clock 32.08KHz
v: height 1050 start 1053 end 1059 total 1071 clock 29.95Hz
I've confirmed Ubuntu recognizes the video card, and that the Nouveau drivers are present.
DS3:~$ lspci -k | grep -iEA5 'vga|display|3d'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G70 [GeForce 7800 GT] (rev a1)
Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. G70 [GeForce 7800 GT]
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau
03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB363 SATA/IDE Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard
Kernel driver in use: ahci
Kernel modules: ahci
DS3:~$ lsmod | grep nouveau
nouveau 2306048 0
mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau
drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 nouveau
ttm 86016 2 drm_ttm_helper,nouveau
drm_kms_helper 311296 1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 nouveau
video 61440 1 nouveau
wmi 32768 2 mxm_wmi,nouveau
drm 622592 4 drm_kms_helper,drm_ttm_helper,ttm,nouveau
The monitor and the video card are from the year 2007, 15 years old. The following forum post, seems to suggest, the graphics card is more to blame. Ubuntu with kernel 4.15 or greater, will not permit installation of proprietary nVidia 304 drivers. I also tried 800x600 during the installation phase, and got the same crtc 0 failed.
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.8 ghz
Motherboard : Gigabyte DS3 with 965P chipset
Ram: 2x1gb + 2x2gb = 6gb ram
Misc: Intel solid state driver 160 MB/s read speed
