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
