Okay, so I'm having two unrelated issues. My first problem was with the
upgrade to the 8178 release of the nvidia drivers. (I'm running 64 bit
gentoo on an HP zv5000) When I upgraded to the latest version of the
drivers suddenly X starts up all garbled. I can see the mouse move but
it's all distorted and large. Now here is the weird thing. When I run
X with TwinView (when I'm at work) it works perfectly like it should.
Here are my relevant configs:
modules.d/nvidia:
# Nvidia drivers support
alias char-major-195 nvidia
alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195
options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1
relevant portions of xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
# The Identifier must be present.
Identifier "Nvidia0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" # no advertisements
Option "DPMS"
Option "FlatPanel"
Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = aspect-scaled"
Option "ConnectedMonitors" "DFP-0"
VendorName "All"
Option "RenderAccel" "false"
Option "Coolbits" "1" # Enables overclocking in nvidia-settings,
nvclock -i for temp
Option "AGPFastWrite" "true" # make sure fastwrite is enabled in
your bios and in linux see below to check
Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "NvAGP" "3"
Option "AllowDDCCI" "1"
Option "SWCursor" "1"
Option "HWCursor" "1"
Option "UseEdidFreqs" "true"
Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia1"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" # no advertisements
Option "DPMS"
Option "FlatPanel"
Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = aspect-scaled"
Option "ConnectedMonitors" "DFP-0,CRT-0"
VendorName "All"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "Coolbits" "1" # Enables overclocking in nvidia-settings,
nvclock -i for temp
Option "AGPFastWrite" "true" # make sure fastwrite is enabled in
your bios and in linux see below to check
Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "UseEdidFreqs" "true"
Option "NvAGP" "3"
Option "AllowDDCCI" "1"
Option "SWCursor" "1"
Option "HWCursor" "1"
# Option "SLI" "1"
Option "UseEdidDpi" "DFP-0"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
Option "TwinView"
Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: 1280x800, CRT-0: 1280x1024; "
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "CRT-0 LeftOf DFP-0"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "28.0 - 96.0"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50.0 - 75.0"
EndSection
Now the second section in my xorg.conf works fine, but the first
doesn't. I've tried turning RenderAccel on, that doesn't help and it
has the added bonus of causing mythtv to freeze the computer. I have
also tried adding: NVreg_SoftEDIDs=0 NVreg_Mobile=0 to the modules.d
file to no avail.
My second issue, which is the less pressing issue, is that the new
kernel stopped detecting my pcmcia slot. I was using 2.6.13 which
allowed me to stop using the funky setpci command, but now that I've
upgraded I've had to re-add that to my startup. Anyone else notice
this?
I hope someone out there might have an idea about the nvidia issue.
Kind Regards,
Sloan Poe
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