After careful investigation, this issue comes from an upstream design decision in the 3xx driver series.
In this new series of the NVidia driver, for reasons that completely escape my understanding, the user is directly exposed to the (powerful) details of the inner working of the GPU pipeline, like RasterSize, ViewPortIn, ViewPortOut etc. See the following url for more explanations from one of the driver's programmers. http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-September/096933.html A positive consequence is that one is now free to program arbitrary zoom/rotation/panning on any display device. The negative consequence is that if you want *just* to adapt your LCD "resolution" to that of an external beamer to show your slides in "clone" mode, you are now going to have to play with these parameters which are way more obscure than the traditional "1024x768" modes that did show up in nvidia-settings with pre-3xx drivers. For example, I have to click on the "Advanced" button in the X server display configuration window, and then type 1024x768 in the ViewPortIn and Panning fields, and leave alone the ViewPortOut field. [I checked this functionality on the 310 version in experimental, where it is supported properly; it did not seem to work on the 304.60-1 driver, which is no longer relevant anyway] Did not find out how to do the same using xrandr yet. A good tutorial on how to get the basic old functionality with these new features would be a big plus. On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:01:03PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > On 2012-11-24 11:54, Roberto Di Cosmo wrote: > > Package: nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 > > Version: 304.60-1 > > > After upgrading to the 3xx version of the NVidia driver, > > Please try the most recent driver releases: > 304.64 in unstable > 310.19 in experimental > > Thanks > > Andreas -- Roberto Di Cosmo ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professeur En delegation a l'INRIA PPS E-mail: [email protected] Universite Paris Diderot WWW : http://www.dicosmo.org Case 7014 Tel : ++33-(0)1-57 27 92 20 5, Rue Thomas Mann F-75205 Paris Cedex 13 Identica: http://identi.ca/rdicosmo FRANCE. Twitter: http://twitter.com/rdicosmo ------------------------------------------------------------------ Attachments: MIME accepted, Word deprecated http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Office location: Bureau 6C08 (6th floor) 175, rue du Chevaleret, XIII Metro Chevaleret, ligne 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------- GPG fingerprint 2931 20CE 3A5A 5390 98EC 8BFC FCCA C3BE 39CB 12D3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
