[gentoo-user] Monitor Resolution
After a recent xorg upgrade my display hasn't been quite right. It's all usable, but it looks like the resolution is wrong. The resolution is now set at the highest 1024x768 where it use to be 1280x1024. Gnome-System-Preference-Monitors Under Monitor Preferences the monitor is Unknown, Resolution 1024x768, Refresh Rate 0 Hz, and Rotation Normal. The Detect monitors button doesn't seem to do anything. The only other option under Resolution is 800x600. I have a fairly new Samsung 932BW LCD Monitor and using an Nvidia graphics card. Any ideas on how to get my display back? Thanks, dhk
Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor Resolution
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 06:47 -0400, dhk wrote: After a recent xorg upgrade my display hasn't been quite right. It's all usable, but it looks like the resolution is wrong. The resolution is now set at the highest 1024x768 where it use to be 1280x1024. Gnome-System-Preference-Monitors Under Monitor Preferences the monitor is Unknown, Resolution 1024x768, Refresh Rate 0 Hz, and Rotation Normal. The Detect monitors button doesn't seem to do anything. The only other option under Resolution is 800x600. I have a fairly new Samsung 932BW LCD Monitor and using an Nvidia graphics card. Any ideas on how to get my display back? Thanks, First, the obligatory have you looked at the logs? Not a lot of information was given (upgraded to what version? what drivers?, etc). but here is a guess. Since you are using an nvidia card, I'm guessing you are using the proprietary nvidia drivers. The gnome preference thingie uses xrandr which, as far as I know, the proprietery nvidia drivers do not support. I don't use nvidia cards anymore, but from my memory the GNOME monitor app has never worked with Nvidia. I'm also guessing that you upgraded to xorg-server 1.9. Based on that, and the fact that Nvidia drivers are usually behind Xorg updates, I'm going to guess that the proprietary drivers are not working correctly, either because Nvidia has to push out an update that supports 1.9 or you have not re-compiled your drivers after upgrading the server. So I would say first to try recompiling the Nvidia driver (if you haven't already done so) and if that doesn't fix the problem you'll might have to wait until Nvidia updates their proprietary drivers. Anyway that's just a guess, since I no longer use Nvidia and based on the limited information received. You will likely find more information (that you can post) by looking at the X server's log file. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor Resolution
On 09/24/2010 07:06 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 06:47 -0400, dhk wrote: After a recent xorg upgrade my display hasn't been quite right. It's all usable, but it looks like the resolution is wrong. The resolution is now set at the highest 1024x768 where it use to be 1280x1024. Gnome-System-Preference-Monitors Under Monitor Preferences the monitor is Unknown, Resolution 1024x768, Refresh Rate 0 Hz, and Rotation Normal. The Detect monitors button doesn't seem to do anything. The only other option under Resolution is 800x600. I have a fairly new Samsung 932BW LCD Monitor and using an Nvidia graphics card. Any ideas on how to get my display back? Thanks, First, the obligatory have you looked at the logs? Not a lot of information was given (upgraded to what version? what drivers?, etc). but here is a guess. Since you are using an nvidia card, I'm guessing you are using the proprietary nvidia drivers. The gnome preference thingie uses xrandr which, as far as I know, the proprietery nvidia drivers do not support. I don't use nvidia cards anymore, but from my memory the GNOME monitor app has never worked with Nvidia. I'm also guessing that you upgraded to xorg-server 1.9. Based on that, and the fact that Nvidia drivers are usually behind Xorg updates, I'm going to guess that the proprietary drivers are not working correctly, either because Nvidia has to push out an update that supports 1.9 or you have not re-compiled your drivers after upgrading the server. So I would say first to try recompiling the Nvidia driver (if you haven't already done so) and if that doesn't fix the problem you'll might have to wait until Nvidia updates their proprietary drivers. Anyway that's just a guess, since I no longer use Nvidia and based on the limited information received. You will likely find more information (that you can post) by looking at the X server's log file. -a After doing the following I didn't notice any difference and the nvidia driver wasn't installed in the first place. First) # emerge x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Calculating dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild manifests Starting parallel fetch Emerging (1 of 4) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20100611 Emerging (2 of 4) x11-libs/libvdpau-0.4 Installing (2 of 4) x11-libs/libvdpau-0.4 Installing (1 of 4) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20100611 Emerging (3 of 4) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.31 Installing (3 of 4) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.31 Recording x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers in world favorites file... Emerging (4 of 4) media-video/nvidia-settings-195.36.24 Installing (4 of 4) media-video/nvidia-settings-195.36.24 Jobs: 4 of 4 complete Load avg: 3.49, 2.20, 1.21 * Messages for package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.31: * * WARNING * * * You are currently installing a version of nvidia-drivers that is * known not to work with a video card you have installed on your * system. If this is intentional, please ignore this. If it is not * please perform the following steps: * * Add the following mask entry to /etc/portage/package.mask by * echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0 * /etc/portage/package.mask * * Failure to perform the steps above could result in a non-working * X setup. * * For more information please read: * http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html * You must be in the video group to use the NVIDIA device * For more info, read the docs at * http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml#doc_chap3_sect6 * * This ebuild installs a kernel module and X driver. Both must * match explicitly in their version. This means, if you restart * X, you must modprobe -r nvidia before starting it back up * * To use the NVIDIA GLX, run eselect opengl set nvidia * * NVIDIA has requested that any bug reports submitted have the * output of /usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh included. * * To work with compiz, you must enable the * AddARGBGLXVisuals option. * * If you are having resolution problems, try * disabling DynamicTwinView. Auto-cleaning packages... No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. Second) echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0 /etc/portage/package.mask Third) modprobe has nothing to do. # modprobe -rn nvidia Original opengl setting # eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] nvidia [2] xorg-x11 * Restarted and nothing changed. fourth) # eselect opengl set nvidia # eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] nvidia * [2] xorg-x11 Restarted and nothing changed. Do I need to set the resolution somewhere? I haven't used an xorg.conf file in sometime. Thanks, dhk
Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor Resolution
On 09/24/10 05:38, dhk wrote: On 09/24/2010 07:06 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 06:47 -0400, dhk wrote: After a recent xorg upgrade my display hasn't been quite right. It's all usable, but it looks like the resolution is wrong. The resolution is now set at the highest 1024x768 where it use to be 1280x1024. Gnome-System-Preference-Monitors Under Monitor Preferences the monitor is Unknown, Resolution 1024x768, Refresh Rate 0 Hz, and Rotation Normal. The Detect monitors button doesn't seem to do anything. The only other option under Resolution is 800x600. I have a fairly new Samsung 932BW LCD Monitor and using an Nvidia graphics card. Any ideas on how to get my display back? Thanks, First, the obligatory have you looked at the logs? Not a lot of information was given (upgraded to what version? what drivers?, etc). but here is a guess. Since you are using an nvidia card, I'm guessing you are using the proprietary nvidia drivers. The gnome preference thingie uses xrandr which, as far as I know, the proprietery nvidia drivers do not support. I don't use nvidia cards anymore, but from my memory the GNOME monitor app has never worked with Nvidia. I'm also guessing that you upgraded to xorg-server 1.9. Based on that, and the fact that Nvidia drivers are usually behind Xorg updates, I'm going to guess that the proprietary drivers are not working correctly, either because Nvidia has to push out an update that supports 1.9 or you have not re-compiled your drivers after upgrading the server. So I would say first to try recompiling the Nvidia driver (if you haven't already done so) and if that doesn't fix the problem you'll might have to wait until Nvidia updates their proprietary drivers. Anyway that's just a guess, since I no longer use Nvidia and based on the limited information received. You will likely find more information (that you can post) by looking at the X server's log file. -a After doing the following I didn't notice any difference and the nvidia driver wasn't installed in the first place. First) # emerge x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Calculating dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild manifests Starting parallel fetch Emerging (1 of 4) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20100611 Emerging (2 of 4) x11-libs/libvdpau-0.4 Installing (2 of 4) x11-libs/libvdpau-0.4 Installing (1 of 4) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20100611 Emerging (3 of 4) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.31 Installing (3 of 4) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.31 Recording x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers in world favorites file... Emerging (4 of 4) media-video/nvidia-settings-195.36.24 Installing (4 of 4) media-video/nvidia-settings-195.36.24 Jobs: 4 of 4 complete Load avg: 3.49, 2.20, 1.21 * Messages for package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.31: * * WARNING * * * You are currently installing a version of nvidia-drivers that is * known not to work with a video card you have installed on your * system. If this is intentional, please ignore this. If it is not * please perform the following steps: * * Add the following mask entry to /etc/portage/package.mask by * echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0 * /etc/portage/package.mask * * Failure to perform the steps above could result in a non-working * X setup. * * For more information please read: * http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html * You must be in the video group to use the NVIDIA device * For more info, read the docs at * http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml#doc_chap3_sect6 * * This ebuild installs a kernel module and X driver. Both must * match explicitly in their version. This means, if you restart * X, you must modprobe -r nvidia before starting it back up * * To use the NVIDIA GLX, run eselect opengl set nvidia * * NVIDIA has requested that any bug reports submitted have the * output of /usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh included. * * To work with compiz, you must enable the * AddARGBGLXVisuals option. * * If you are having resolution problems, try * disabling DynamicTwinView. Auto-cleaning packages... No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. Second) echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0 /etc/portage/package.mask You should have emerged nvidia-drivers here. Third) modprobe has nothing to do. # modprobe -rn nvidia Original opengl setting # eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] nvidia [2] xorg-x11 * Restarted and nothing changed. fourth) # eselect opengl set nvidia # eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] nvidia * [2] xorg-x11 Restarted and nothing changed. Do I need to set the resolution somewhere? I haven't used an xorg.conf file in sometime. Thanks, dhk
