nVidia GeForce MX 440 Core 6

[gala_dragos]

Hey, if you have Nvidia why don't use their proprietary driver, it works much better !!! Find it at www.nvidia.com . Just look for the linux section.

[mckechan]

Okay I'm really struggling with this. I just cannot get it to work no matter what driver I try. Now I can't even get the screen resolution above a really low setting, even if I copy over the original xorg.conf file.

What shall I do?

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by mckechan

Okay I'm really struggling with this. I just cannot get it to work no matter what driver I try. Now I can't even get the screen resolution above a really low setting, even if I copy over the original xorg.conf file.

What shall I do?

try adding this section

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "LCD"
ModelName "LCD AUTO DETECT"
# HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
# VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

and edit this section add this ( Monitor "Monitor0" )

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

yes make sure you have 686 kernel installed first and foremost, it was a slight bug with the installation that defaulted to the 585 kernal being installed, a search on this fourm will revil how to correct if your unsure..

and for the Geforce 4 (just like i have :P) you need the 96xx driver

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by 3006828

yes make sure you have 686 kernel installed first and foremost, it was a slight bug with the installation that defaulted to the 585 kernal being installed, a search on this fourm will revil how to correct if your unsure..

and for the Geforce 4 (just like i have :P) you need the 96xx driver

Please refer to post #4

[mckechan]

Thanks for your replies...

I am confident I have an i686 kernel

uname -a
Linux apache.meganet 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 #1 SMP Sat Feb 10 15:51:47 EST 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

yum list installed kernel
Installed Packages
kernel.i686 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 installed
kernel.i686 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 installed

My xorg.conf now looks like this:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

# HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
# VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "LCD"
ModelName "LCD AUTO DETECT"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "800x600" "640x480" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

I think I don't have the 96xx driver installed properly. I use Add/Remove software and
kmod-nvidia-96xx - 1.09631-4.2.6.19_1.2911.fc6.i686
has a nice green tick next to it but I don't think this is in my xorg.conf as the nvidia logo screen is not there.

[mckechan]

also, although all those resolution modes are listed, if I go to System->Display the higher resolutions are not an option

[mckechan]

Okay I managed to solve it myself by fiddling.

Look in my previous print of xorg.cong. It said driver "vesa" so I changed that to "nvidia", seems to be working

[mckechan]

I still have this problem

Originally Posted by mckechan

I have installed the nvidia 96xx driver. My favourite desktop effect (the one that zooms out all your windows like OS X) is not working. All the other ones work fine.

Also when i watch a video from BBC news, using realplayer it flicks green (some sort of refresh rate problem?)

Please help,
thanks in advance

[gala_dragos]

You can always delete (backup first!!!) your Xorg.conf file and redo the configuration. I think 'Xconfigure' is the command, ask arround about it couse I'm not sure. If anything goes wrong you can reboot and restore the original file (assuming you did a backup first).
You can do a back up by entering command "cp Xorg.conf Xorg.conf.bak" in console mode. Of course you must be in "/etc/X11" directory before issuing the command !
Oh, and don't forget to restart X server after each modification to your Xorg.conf file by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F11.

[gala_dragos]

I still have this problem

Quote:
Originally Posted by mckechan
I have installed the nvidia 96xx driver. My favourite desktop effect (the one that zooms out all your windows like OS X) is not working. All the other ones work fine.

Also when i watch a video from BBC news, using realplayer it flicks green (some sort of refresh rate problem?)

Please help,
thanks in advance

For the flicker problem, might help if you add this to your Xorg.conf file:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

[mckechan]

Thanks. Will give it a try and post back if I hit any more hurdles....

[mckechan]

Great that seems to have solved the flidker problem. Thanks very much

[mckechan]

With those added lines, no desktop effects are possible. This doesn't bother me because as I couldn't get the OS X zoom out effect to work I don't really care for the others.

Surely it is possible to have all the effects working and no flicker when watching streamed video?

[mckechan]

I am sure I have the correct driver for my ancient nvidia GeForce MX 440 card. GoogleEarth works smoothly and I have a nice resolution. Since the latest kernel update I can't get desktop effects to work at all.

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance