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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:41 pm    Post subject: Nvidia Driver Resolution Strangeness (solved) Reply with quote

Everything seemed to work fine with the 6111 drivers.

- I was able to acheive 1280x800 resolution

- 3D rendering *used* to work

Now, something about the emul drivers changed and the 6111 drivers no longer would read the GL subsystem.

Now, I could stand running the new 6629 drivers, except that it will not give me 1280x800, instead gives me 1024x768 with some *UBER* weird results that I will have to take a picture of and post for you to see.

My question is this, if by chance someone knows what I'm talking about, how do I fix this?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know is the info that follows is pretty basic or will be helpful. My default resolution is 1152x864, whis is also non-standard. To get it, here are the relevant parts of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
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Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "SM793DF"
    HorizSync   30-70
    VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "tarjeta nVidia GeForce"
    Driver      "nvidia"

     Option      "NvAGP" "3"
     Option      "DPMS" "on"
     Option      "RenderAccel" "on"
     Option      "AGPMode" "4"
     Option      "DigitalVibrance" "0"
     Option      "CursorShadow" "true"

     VideoRam    131072
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "tarjeta nVidia GeForce"
    Monitor     "SM793DF"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1152x864" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1152x864" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1152x864" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection


Notice that "1152x864" is first in every line, so that it is the default resolution.
With this set-up, I can correctly choose a 1152x864 @ 75 Hz in KDE. Hope this helps.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry, didn't seem to help.

I know that the 1280x800 resolution needs to be listed first, but it still defaults to 1024x768 and looks *VERY* funky. And this *EXACT* config worked for the 6111 drivers perfectly. Here are some system info stats if it helps.

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AMD 64 3200+
512 Mb Ram
2.6.9-gentoo-r14 kernel
GeForce 4 440 Go Mobile w/ 64 Mb
15.4 LCD Widescreen display


HP ZV5260 Laptop
Stats here via HP website

Anymore info I can give, lemme know. I'll try to get that screenie ASAP.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Then I'm afraid I can't help you. I'm a recent newbie not only to Linux/Gentoo, but to PC hardware. I'm a Mac OS X user at home, and used to be also at the office, until they bought me a new AMD64 box which replaced my old PowerMac.

Did you make sure the "Monitor" section has the right info for your monitor, and that xorg is taking the monitor info from that definition, and not from another generic one that might be in xorg.conf?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm fairly sure.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you looked at this thread? There seems to be a working xorg.conf for 1280x800.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same result
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.cybergrunge.com/images/lappyscreenie.jpg

Okay, At the bottom, the pixels repeat each other all the way down. And off to the right, there is blank space, then repeats some pixels somewhere in the middle, them more blank space. And it doesn't stretch to fullscreen like it should at 1024x768... it does that.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2191807.html#2191807

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