On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:11:47 -0700 Dick Steffens <[email protected]> dijo:
>So things improved, but still don't work right. The check box on the >VGA monitor for "Make this the primary display for the X screen" is >checked, but the bar at the top of the screen is not on the VGA >monitor. > >Further ideas? > >Also, what is PRIME, and should it be supported on this machine? And >what about the xorg-server stuff? The machine seems to work fine for >most of what I use it for, but I'd really like to be able to see the >bar at the top. I can't really answer any of your questions, but if not all of the screen appears on the monitor my first guess would be that the resolution that it is set to is wrong for the nVidia card and/or monitor. I also know that most monitors these days contain EDID data that they report so the OS so all of its parts know what resolutions and other settings are right. If you can, try connecting it to a different display screen and see what happens. Also, HDMI is not as fully featured as DisplayPort nowadays, and VGA is even more basic. If there are different cable ports try switching to another one. Oh, another idea is to use the nouveau driver instead of the proprietary nVidia driver. The nouveau driver has problems with some cards, but I can't remember which ones, and it's easy enough to give it a try. Also, most recent motherboards have Intel video on them, and if yours does maybe you should just ditch the nVidia stuff and use Intel. You can find out a lot of stuff about your video hardware with 'lshw -c video.' That's probably not terribly helpful, but it's all I can think of. :( _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
