On 10/19/20 2:19 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
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.
The "monitor" in question is a TV that doesn't understand underscan. I've tried telling the nVidia card to adjust for that, but it has never worked. Maybe that's related to the other issues I'm having, but I have tried that.
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.
This machine is my alternate desktop machine, and has been used with wide screen monitors fed by HDMI in the past with no problems.
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.
I might do that. As I recall, it's a bit of a process. I think I have to completely remove the nVidia stuff first, and then reinstall the nouveau driver. I may give that a try, but not this week.
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. :(
The motherboard is an ASUSTeK B85M-G, which does have onboard VGA and HDMI, so I might give that a try and see what it does. My recollection is that I moved the nVidia card to this machine from an older one. I don't think I've ever tried using the onboard video. Might be worth the effort.
Thanks for the thoughts. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
