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I built my first server and displayed 1920X1080 properly through the built in video VGA, on MOBO. After confirming that worked I installed Matrox M9120 PCI x16 and was lowered to 1024X768 resolution.

I downloaded the proper .run file and followed some instructions i found on Google to unpack the drivers and run them ./[name].run. Terminal showed the drivers installed. As a long time Windows user my train of thought was the proper resolution would be enabled. Not as such! Any tips on what I am doing incorrectly?

Also when I installed 8GB of ram, it shows 7.9GB installed. With 16GB it showed 15.7 installed. I had assumed that the system allocated some RAM to video when I was using VGA. When I turned MOBO video off in BIOS it continued to display 15.7gB free. Is this video related or simply Linux's way of showing RAM count?

Maythux
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  • List down the steps you've done to install the driver – Maythux Jan 16 '14 at 06:05
  • I used this page: http://askubuntu.com/questions/18747/how-do-i-install-run-files

    and used the commands (replacing with matrox file name): sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run

    sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run

    However I realize I did not do: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

     – skidawgz Jan 16 '14 at 21:52
  • you have to do sudo service lightdm stop – Maythux Jan 17 '14 at 06:27

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First you have to switch to non graphical tty suppose tty1 ctrl+alt+F1

login with username and password

stop lightdm: sudo stop lightdm

Give execute permission to the .run file driver sudo chmod +x driver.run

Now run the script by sudo ./driver.run

then reboot and you should now be working on the new driver

Maythux
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  • ctrl+alt+F1 gave no prompt so I tried ctrl+alt+F2. in tty2, i typed what you said and any version of stop lightdm gives "stop: uknown instance:"

    continuing to ./driver.run gives "you must be logged in as root to run this program"

     – skidawgz Jan 18 '14 at 05:20
  • i found that sudo su, fixed the second issue. I booted into command interface and still get the issue with stopping lightdm. drivers show installed but I cannot change rez – skidawgz Jan 18 '14 at 05:27