On 09/24/10 05:38, dhk wrote: > 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 >
You should have emerged nvidia-drivers here. > 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 >
