Kevin Kempter wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2008 22:28:33 Lonni J Friedman wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Kevin Kempter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > wrote: > >>> Hi All; >>> >>> I've installed Fedora 10 on a new laptop with an Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M >>> graphics card. The card will do 1920x1200 resolution however the >>> kmod-nvidia driver from rpmfusion doesnt work properly (at least I >>> suspect the kmod-nvidia driver to be the issue - however I could be >>> wrong) >>> >>> Once installed all the queries I can run such as xrand and >>> nvidia-settings specify that I'm running at 1920x1200 however I know >>> that's not true - I recently had CentOS installed and it (without the >>> kmod-nvidia driver) gave me true 1920x1200 and the difference is huge. >>> >>> So, my hunch is that I'm slightly ahead of the curve per hardware and >>> soon enough a driver that works with my video card will come along. >>> Meanwhile I've poked around at the nvidia site for linux drivers and I >>> find that there is support for the FX 3700, but not the FX 3700M. >>> >>> Does anyone know what the difference might be between the FX 3700 and the >>> FX 3700 M (Mobile)? I wonder if it would be wise to download and install >>> the FX 3700 driver and see if it works ? >>> >> 177.82 should work fine. >> >> >> >> -- >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> LlamaLand https://netllama.linux-sxs.org >> > > > I installed the FX 3700 driver (177.82) and I now have a true 1920x1200 > desktop - it looks great ! > > However now I lost all my GL screensavers (none of 'em work) and no desktop > effects. Here's the new xorg.conf (below). > > Anyone have any thoughts ? > > Note: I tried changing "vesa" in the Device section to "nvidia" and I get the > old resolution again. > > Thanks in advance... > Does "glxinfo | grep rendering" say "direct rendering: Yes"?
I don't use the repo'd nVidia drivers. I get mine directly from
nvidia.com and I did have a case once where I had to run their installer
twice in a row to get direct rendering Yes.
Also, check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log to make sure you see lines similar
to ...
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module 173.14.05 Mon May 19 00:30:52 PDT 2008
(II) Loading extension GLX
>
> # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display
>
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "single head configuration"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "AIGLX" "on"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # generated from default
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # keyboard added by rhpxl
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> ModelName "LCD Panel 1920x1200"
> HorizSync 31.5 - 74.5
> VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0
> Option "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "vesa"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Videocard0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Extensions"
> Option "Composite" "Enable"
> EndSection
>
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