I gave a presentation this afternoon but was unable to get the gnome GUI to
display at any resolution I tried (1024x768, 800x600, 1280x800).  Actually,
1280x800 did display at first but poorly.  I was using my HP dv6275us laptop
running Ubuntu 6.10.  This machine has an Nvidia 7400 card (128mb on board)
and the linux restricted drivers installed (not the nvidia binary).  During
boot up most text screens and the splash screen would display.  In most
cases the gnome desktop displayed like a hash of bars and boxes with nothing
readable.

Afterward I came home and plugged a reasonably nice monitor into the vga
port and got similar results.

lspci shows:
   01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 01d8
(rev a1)
lshw shows
     *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory
Controller Hub
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@00:00.0
          version: 03
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
        *-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge
             product: Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express PCI
Express Root Port
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1
             bus info: pci@00:01.0
             version: 03
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
           *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: nVidia Corporation
                vendor: nVidia Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@01:00.0
                version: a1
                size: 256MB
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: vga bus_master cap_list
                resources: iomemory:dd000000-ddffffff
iomemory:c0000000-cfffffff iomemory:
dc000000-dcffffff irq:11
I tried lsmod but didn't know what might be meaningful

Anyone have any good ideas.  I am giving another presentation tonight.  My
current thought are to port the presentation to Microsoft Office and use
Windows to try driving the projector (yuck).

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