Stuck with highest resolution

[hyrr]

Hi

On my laptop running with Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT I'm stuck using the highest resolution - 1920x1200 and I can't lower. I tried editing xorg.conf, using nvidia-xconfig, setting it with xrandr but to na avail, I'm just stuck with 1920x1200. Any ideas?

$ rpm -qa *\nvidia\*  *\kernel\*|sort;uname -r;lsmod |grep -e nvidia -e nouveau;cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.7-3.fc16.x86_64
akmod-nvidia-304.51-1.fc16.1.x86_64
erlang-kernel-R15B-02.1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.4.9-2.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.4.9-2.fc16.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-tools-3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-tools-libs-3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64-295.53-1.fc16.1.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-3.4.9-2.fc16.x86_64-304.37-1.fc16.2.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64-304.51-1.fc16.1.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-304.51-1.fc16.1.x86_64
libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.0.10-3.fc16.x86_64
nvidia-settings-1.0-21.fc16.x86_64
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-19.fc16.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304.51-1.fc16.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-304.51-1.fc16.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-304.51-1.fc16.x86_64
3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64
nvidia              11262708  34 
i2c_core               38277  2 nvidia,i2c_i801
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 304.51  (mockbuild@)  Sun Oct 21 12:01:08 CEST 2012

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "single head configuration"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1920x1200" "1440x900"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
TV-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS-0 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 367mm x 230mm
   1920x1200      59.2*+   59.2

[PabloTwo]

You didn't mention trying "nvidia-settings". Did you try that?

[hyrr]

You didn't mention trying "nvidia-settings". Did you try that?

Yes i tried it, it only allows me to set 1900x1200 or Auto.

---------- Post added at 02:47 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:34 PM ----------

I've been partially successfull with changing the resolution.

When I use Randr v 1.1 i can switch resolutions:

$ xrandr --q1 
 SZ:    Pixels          Physical       Refresh
*0   1920 x 1200   ( 372mm x 230mm )  *50   51   52   53   54  
 1   1920 x 1080   ( 372mm x 207mm )   55  
 2   1600 x 1200   ( 310mm x 230mm )   56  
 3   1280 x 1024   ( 248mm x 197mm )   57  
 4   1280 x 720    ( 248mm x 138mm )   58  
 5   1024 x 768    ( 198mm x 147mm )   59  
 6    800 x 600    ( 155mm x 115mm )   60  
 7    640 x 480    ( 124mm x  92mm )   61  
Current rotation - normal
Current reflection - none
Rotations possible - normal left inverted right 
Reflections possible - X Axis Y Axis

But all of those are wrong, when I switch, they dont take up the whole screen, I see black pillars on the right/left or top/bottom.

I managed to add an extra resolution with this line in xorg.conf

Option         "IncludeImplicitMetaModes" "ExtraResolutions = (1440x900),DisplayDevice = LVDS-0"

And now I see an eight entry:

 8   1440 x 900    ( 279mm x 173mm )   62

When I switch to it, the desktop seems to run in the correct resolution, but applications don't if that makes any sense. When I start firefox or the terminal for example it takes more than the entire screen when maximized. Any thoughts?

[secipolla]

I don't think the proprietary driver works with randr.

Just replace in the xorg.conf file

Modes "1920x1200" "1440x900"

for

Modes "1440x900"

[hyrr]

I don't think the proprietary driver works with randr.

Just replace in the xorg.conf file

Modes "1920x1200" "1440x900"

for

Modes "1440x900"

Doesn't change anything, that would be too easy

[jpollard]

Part of your problem is the monitor itself - it doesn't support multiple resolutions, hence the black bars around what you got.

The last issue is where the full size of the Xservers display is larger than than the size of the display screen. Very likely it is the size of the real display.

this is/was used for panning a small display around a larger virtual display (created and used by the X server) due to a mismatch between the physical display size and the requested display size.

Normally both the virtual display and the physical display are the same and this effect is not seen. It is also a problem for things like gnome3 that have oddball characteristics (that stupid "hot corner" crap) that require the panning to the appropriate area before use.

This is a very useful feature when testing - you can create a virtual 4k by 2k display and test your applications without the physical display.