[Bug 33075] Re: Dell Inspiron 8200 Nvidia proprietary driver causes display errors (vertical lines on the right, and mirror effect on the bottom)[Workaround Available]
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33075 Title: Dell Inspiron 8200 Nvidia proprietary driver causes display errors (vertical lines on the right, and mirror effect on the bottom)[Workaround Available] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/33075/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 33075] Re: Dell Inspiron 8200 Nvidia proprietary driver causes display errors (vertical lines on the right, and mirror effect on the bottom)[Workaround Available]
Loïc Martin, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Intrepid reached EOL on April 30, 2010. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases Is this an issue in a supported release? If so, could you please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal: apport-collect 33075 Please ensure you have xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information. ** No longer affects: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 (Ubuntu) ** No longer affects: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) ** No longer affects: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) ** Attachment removed: kel...@nvnews.net 's custom EDID for Dell (Samsung) Display in Inspiron 8200 / c840 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/33075/+attachment/1727106/+files/kelvin_dell_display_edid.zip ** Package changed: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) = xorg (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium = Low ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33075 Title: Dell Inspiron 8200 Nvidia proprietary driver causes display errors (vertical lines on the right, and mirror effect on the bottom)[Workaround Available] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/33075/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 33075] Re: Dell Inspiron 8200 Nvidia proprietary driver causes display errors (vertical lines on the right, and mirror effect on the bottom)[Workaround Available]
Just saw this bug while researching another problem... Reference the question in #17, I recommend to others both the get-edid of package read-edid to get the EDID of a display using the coomand line... get-edid edid1.bin ...or if they can get gnome to display, using nvidia-settings to generate it (in NVidia XServer Settings Device Display Acquire EDID ) Current problem / limitation) with get-edid is that it will only read the first display and not of any multilples beyond that. The author of the read-edid ipackage s working on expanding that. nvidia- settings will get the EDID of displays past the first, but needs to be running in gnome to be able to run. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33075 Title: Dell Inspiron 8200 Nvidia proprietary driver causes display errors (vertical lines on the right, and mirror effect on the bottom)[Workaround Available] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15/+bug/33075/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 33075] Re: Dell Inspiron 8200 Nvidia proprietary driver causes display errors (vertical lines on the right, and mirror effect on the bottom)[Workaround Available]
** Summary changed: - Dell Inspiron 8200 Nvidia proprietary driver causes display errors (vertical lines on the right, and mirror effect on the bottom) + Dell Inspiron 8200 Nvidia proprietary driver causes display errors (vertical lines on the right, and mirror effect on the bottom)[Workaround Available] ** Description changed: Using nvidia proprietary driver on a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a Samsung 1600x1200 screen, the desktop is only shown on about the top left 4/5 of the screen, with multicolor vertical lines on the right and a mirror of the top part of the desktop at the bottom of the screen. The desktop is shown in full, only it's shrinked to 4/5 of its size. Using the free nv driver, everything is ok except I'd be happy if it was snappier :) + + [Workaround] + See comment #4 to set a customized edid -- Dell Inspiron 8200 Nvidia proprietary driver causes display errors (vertical lines on the right, and mirror effect on the bottom)[Workaround Available] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33075 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 33075] Re: Dell Inspiron 8200 Nvidia proprietary driver causes display errors (vertical lines on the right, and mirror effect on the bottom)[Workaround Available]
Thanks for posting a way to fix the issue manually. Unfortunately, currently we do not have an infrastructure for dynamically replacing the EDID, so since this is a replacement edid file rather than an actual patch, I'm unmarking it as a solution to the bug. However, I think this is a good example of the type of issue discussed for addressing as part of the hardware-desktop-n-xorg-configuration- the-final-ten-percent specification, so I've linked it from there. Basically, we need a user-friendly mechanism for editing/overriding EDID's where the monitor is supplying a bad EDID. In some cases we can quirk around it in the kernel driver, but obviously with nvidia being closed source that's not possible. But this bug report demonstrates that given a proper replacement EDID file, it can be overridden for -nvidia in xorg.conf. So perhaps this functionality could be incorporated into nvidia-config, xdiagnose, or some other utility as appropriate. The question then becomes, how to generate the replacement EDID. In the original forum post referenced here, the contributor used a Windows utility called Phoenix(?) to generate it. I don't think we have an equivalent tool on linux, although we do have tools to decode EDID in the form of read-edid and edid-decode (which I've just uploaded to universe today). Presumably it would be feasible to create an edid encoding tool by essentially inverting the decoder logic. -- Dell Inspiron 8200 Nvidia proprietary driver causes display errors (vertical lines on the right, and mirror effect on the bottom)[Workaround Available] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33075 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
