Installed Nvidia Driver, no more 1600x1200 and desktop becomes scrollable

plee · #1 22nd June 2005, 06:23 PM

I downloaded the nvidia drivers from website and installed it from the instructions. Launch terminal, sh nvidia...run, edited config file, rebooted. After I installed nvidia drivers, fedora won't let me do 1600x1200 resolution anymore, or at least when I try to change resolution through the gui desktop, 1600x1200 is not listed in the pulldown menu. I looked in the xorg.config file, and 1600x1200 is listed under modes.

Also, another weird problem is my desktop became scrollable, kind of hard to explain. But the whole desktop is not visible on the monitor, part of it is offscreen. I have to move the mouse to the edge of the screen and the desktop will scroll to that side.

Does anyone have any advice on how I can fix these problems. My system info is below:

Fresh FC4 Installation (installed EVERYTHING)
Shuttle nForce2 Board (using onboard geforce4mx video)
Using Dell 2001FP monitor (Analog)

bitrain · #2 22nd June 2005, 06:37 PM

Do you have the drivers that came out today: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=60832
There was an issue that is fixed with your resolution.

plee · #3 22nd June 2005, 06:45 PM

I just saw that post, I did this yesterday, so I had the old drivers. I will try out the new drivers. Thanks!

triplehead · #4 22nd June 2005, 06:59 PM

i fixed that scrollable issue by removing all not 4:3 resolutions from xorg.conf (removed 1280x800 and 1280x1024, kept 1280x960).

plee · #5 23rd June 2005, 01:05 AM

New drivers same problem, did a complete reinstall of fedora fc4 too. I tried removing non 4:3 resolutions in the xorg.config, but it didn't work for me, still have to scroll around to get to parts of the desktop.

triplehead · #6 23rd June 2005, 01:51 AM

have you dried putting display size information in monitor section (add line "DisplaySize width height" to monitor section)

plee · #7 23rd June 2005, 05:31 AM

Adding the DisplaySize value only changes some of the text sizes for me, didn't fix the problem.

I did somewhat fix the scrolling effect problem, if I remove all but one value in the Modes, the scrolling problem goes away, but I still can't run it at 1600x1200 resolution. My current xorg.conf snipplet:

Quote:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Dell 2001FP (Analog)"
DisplaySize 400 300
HorizSync 31.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200"
EndSubSection
EndSection

This config boots into 1280x960 resolution. How I know? I fired up gimp, created a 1600x1200 image and set zoom to 1:1, and measured it. Plus, running non native resolution on lcd is quite noticiable.

buddha · #8 23rd June 2005, 06:13 AM

Have you run the "nvidia-settings" GUI utility to see if everything looks okay?

In the past, I had some problems with not being able to set higher resolutions when the amount of video ram detected on my nvidia card was less than actual. Do you know how much video ram you have?

I finally resorted to explicitly setting the amount of video ram (128MB) in my xorg.conf file. Here's the relevant section:

Code:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "NVIDIA"
        BoardName   "GeForceFX 5700 Ultra"
        VideoRam    131072
        Option      "NoLogo" "on"
# Try AGPGART first, then NvAGP
        Option      "NvAGP" "3"
        Option      "Coolbits" "1"
EndSection

plee · #9 24th June 2005, 02:00 AM

Tried specifing video ram in config, still no go. Upped the shared memory to 128mb in bios, reset video ram, and still no. The nvidia-setting shows 128mb too.

Is there any other way to change resolution besides going through the gui menu, ie (Desktop -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution) ?

triplehead · #10 24th June 2005, 03:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by plee

Tried specifing video ram in config, still no go. Upped the shared memory to 128mb in bios, reset video ram, and still no. The nvidia-setting shows 128mb too.

Is there any other way to change resolution besides going through the gui menu, ie (Desktop -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution) ?

just edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, best way to get everything wright IMHO