bachisanerd
May 25th, 2009, 03:03 PM
I'm having quite a bit of trouble getting the NVIDIA driver to work right.
I just installed Jaunty, and then activated the proprietary driver. After rebooting, the login screen comes up beautifully at the monitor's native resolution of 1440x900. When I log in, however, the monitor goes black as if switching modes, then it complains that the signal is out of range. I have the same result with both versions of the driver in the Hardware Drivers utility.
I've used nvidia-xconfig to build the xorg.conf file, but that also sends the monitor out of range. If I change the driver from "nvidia" to "vesa" I can get to my gnome desktop, but only at the very safe, default, plug-and-play resolution, whatever that might be.
I looked at the monitor's manual to find the exact HorizSync and VertRefresh values, and my Monitor section looks like:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
HorizSync 55.5 - 55.9
VertRefresh 60
EndSection
I also added modes to the Screen section's Display subsection to see if that would help:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
When I start GDM and the login window appears in all of it's beauty, the bottom of /var/log/Xorg.0.log says nothing about video, just some jabber about Macintosh mouse button emulation. When I log in to GDM and get the monitor's "out of range" message, I go back to tty1 and tail the log again to find some new lines:
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1440x900"
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "800x600"
Where is it getting the 800x600 mode? Is there a better way tell the driver the modes I want to use? Anybody else having this problem?
Thanks.
EDIT: the card is a GeForce7100, the monitor is an Asus VK193D
I just installed Jaunty, and then activated the proprietary driver. After rebooting, the login screen comes up beautifully at the monitor's native resolution of 1440x900. When I log in, however, the monitor goes black as if switching modes, then it complains that the signal is out of range. I have the same result with both versions of the driver in the Hardware Drivers utility.
I've used nvidia-xconfig to build the xorg.conf file, but that also sends the monitor out of range. If I change the driver from "nvidia" to "vesa" I can get to my gnome desktop, but only at the very safe, default, plug-and-play resolution, whatever that might be.
I looked at the monitor's manual to find the exact HorizSync and VertRefresh values, and my Monitor section looks like:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
HorizSync 55.5 - 55.9
VertRefresh 60
EndSection
I also added modes to the Screen section's Display subsection to see if that would help:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
When I start GDM and the login window appears in all of it's beauty, the bottom of /var/log/Xorg.0.log says nothing about video, just some jabber about Macintosh mouse button emulation. When I log in to GDM and get the monitor's "out of range" message, I go back to tty1 and tail the log again to find some new lines:
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1440x900"
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "800x600"
Where is it getting the 800x600 mode? Is there a better way tell the driver the modes I want to use? Anybody else having this problem?
Thanks.
EDIT: the card is a GeForce7100, the monitor is an Asus VK193D