On Fri December 4 2009 08:07:42 pm Tomislav Butkovic wrote: > Hello, > > I have been for the last few months trying to figure out how to increase > the screen resolution on my Dell Inspiron 5150 running Debian Lenny with a > GeForce FX Go5200 64mb. > > The maximum screen resolution is currently 1024x768. > > I have entered '1280x1024' into the xorg.conf file under Screen >> Modes: > > > ***** > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Device0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True" > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1280x1024" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > ***** > > > This does not work, and gives me the following result in the xconf log: > > ***** > > (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce FX Go5200 at > (--) NVIDIA(0): PCI:1:0:0: > (--) NVIDIA(0): Seiko (DFP-0) > (--) NVIDIA(0): Seiko (DFP-0): 270.0 MHz maximum pixel clock > (--) NVIDIA(0): Seiko (DFP-0): Internal Dual Link LVDS > (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0 > (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1280x1024"; removing. > (WW) NVIDIA(0): > (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to validate any modes; falling back to the default > mode > (WW) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select". > (WW) NVIDIA(0): > (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes: > (II) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select" > (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1024 x 768 > (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (86, 84); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config > > > ***** > > I am not sure how to proceed, but it would really be nice to have a larger > screen resolution to work with. Would anyone be able to assist me? I have > installed the nvidia drivers the 'debian way' rather than using the nvidia > installer. I believe that is the reason I don't have access to > 'nvidia-settings' like some people do. I'm not too familiar with working in > a terminal or with debian linux. > > If anyone can assist, I would appreciate it.
nvidia-xconfig is in a separate package called "nvidia-xconfig". I ran it and it created a simple config with no resolutions listed. My max resolution is 1024x768 also (with a number of smaller resolutions) but so far that hasn't bothered me. I'll be following this thread to see what can be done to increase that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org