[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to 508 x 317

[Erik]

2010-07-17 01:54, walt skrev:
On 07/15/2010 11:03 PM, Erik wrote:
You may know enough to help if you are familiar with Xorg, in 
particular the driver called NV

I know a little about it.  It is no longer maintained by xorg or 
nvidia, so
that may be part of the problem if you are using recent nvidia hardware.

A commonly asked question is "does it work as expected with the vesa 
driver?"
(Vesa does not include 2D/3D acceleration, obviously, but it should at 
least
give you correct results for an ordinary console.)

The open-source 'nv' driver has been replaced by the open-source 
'nouveau'
driver, which is still very much a work in progress.  I'm using it 
just to
experiment -- I don't need 2D/3D acceleration, but maybe you do.  If 
so, you
need to use nvidia's proprietary 'nvidia' driver because it's the only 
choice
you have at present.

Now I finally have 'nouveau' sort of working. The hardest part so far 
was probably learning the spelling of it.

Unfortunately some icons are corrupted in the taskbar of the panel (see 
attached screenshot) and Alt+Tab window. I tried all versions of 
xf86-video-nouveau in portage.

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