jnew93
May 20th, 2009, 10:14 PM
Hi, I recently performed a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04 on an older Gateway PC I acquired. (Pentium 4 2.4Ghz, 1G RAM, GeForce2 MX400)
The problem is, I want to display my monitor's resolution higher than the default settings, (It's a huge CRT.) Also, I want to be able to use Compiz for desktop effects. Without installing the nvidia drivers the resolution will change in display settings just fine, however after installing the drivers "nvidia-settings" is also installed and must be used to configure the display, or so it seems. After running nvidia settings in root I saved fresh to my xorg.conf (not merging the files).
So, I hit alt-sysrq-k. The login screen ran at the new resolution (1280x1024), and so did the GNOME desktop, but all my window borders were missing, gnome-do would not display correctly, and when I tried to open the terminal in GNOME, all that displayed was a white block. Now is where I need help! Is there a fix, I've tried setting the modeline and modes for my screen manually in the xorg.conf, but to no avail. Here is my xorg.conf if that helps:
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@palmer) Sun Feb 1 20:21:04 UTC 2009
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "AcerView"
HorizSync 31.0 - 91.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 85.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce2 MX/MX 400"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "1280x1024 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Well, I'm posting this from firefox without window borders, and would love some advice, thanks in advance!
The problem is, I want to display my monitor's resolution higher than the default settings, (It's a huge CRT.) Also, I want to be able to use Compiz for desktop effects. Without installing the nvidia drivers the resolution will change in display settings just fine, however after installing the drivers "nvidia-settings" is also installed and must be used to configure the display, or so it seems. After running nvidia settings in root I saved fresh to my xorg.conf (not merging the files).
So, I hit alt-sysrq-k. The login screen ran at the new resolution (1280x1024), and so did the GNOME desktop, but all my window borders were missing, gnome-do would not display correctly, and when I tried to open the terminal in GNOME, all that displayed was a white block. Now is where I need help! Is there a fix, I've tried setting the modeline and modes for my screen manually in the xorg.conf, but to no avail. Here is my xorg.conf if that helps:
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@palmer) Sun Feb 1 20:21:04 UTC 2009
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "AcerView"
HorizSync 31.0 - 91.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 85.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce2 MX/MX 400"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "1280x1024 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Well, I'm posting this from firefox without window borders, and would love some advice, thanks in advance!