Messing around with my acer X233H on Ubuntu 8.04

Ok… So just got my new 23′ acer monitor and I’m just starting to play around with….

Rather than reading the manual…. I just started doing stuff.
This
gave me the idea to try that.
I’m note sure I should have done that which is why I’m trying to keeptrack of what I did.

jonas@Ubuntu4:~$ sudo nvidia-settings
jonas@Ubuntu4:~$ sudo nvidia-xconfig

Using X configuration file: “/etc/X11/xorg.conf”.

WARNING: The CorePointer device was not specified explicitly in the layout;
using the first mouse device.

WARNING: The CoreKeyboard device was not specified explicitly in the layout;
using the first keyboard device.

Backed up file ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’ as ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup’
New X configuration file written to ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’

jonas@Ubuntu4:~$

Ok… to see what kind of video card
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Video

jonas@Ubuntu4:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3)
jonas@Ubuntu4:~$

Ok… Googling a little more we have….
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper Hmmm…. Seems a bit outdated.

I went here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and plugged in the stuff closed to what I was looking for….
So… I downloaded the appropriate driver….

And
I tried this front the command

jonas@Ubuntu4:~/Desktop$ sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.13-pkg1.run
[sudo] password for jonas:
Verifying archive integrity… OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 96.43.13……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
jonas@Ubuntu4:~/Desktop$

ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before installing. For further details, please see the section INSTALLING THE NVIDIA
DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

Which took me to this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=48482

Ok… Now… Lets summarizing…. see….
CTRL-ALT-F1 Log in at the prompt.
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.13-pkg1.run (for me anyway.)
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

I guess… This will take me down to the command prompt… Well… Lets see what happens… (time to publish..)
When I rebooted I got put into a safemode which allowed me to manually configure to a LCD 1920X1280 monitor and a Nnvidia Geforce 4 card….
So… When I rebooted things seem to get better.

When I tried to fire up supertuxkart from the command line I got this message.

freeglut (supertuxkart): OpenGL GLX extension not supported by display ‘:0.0’

Googling I found… http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/opengl-glx-extension-not-supported-by-display-0.0-321212/

Supposed, I need to remove, glut, freeglut and mesa for this to work…. Well…
Well I just blew away free-glut and free-glut-dev….
I ‘m not sure I want to do this with mesa…. to much stuff is going to go away…
Let see if supertuxkart works now…

Ok… I tried to do the edits as per http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.13/README/chapter-03-section-02.html

Lets.. see what happens…

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