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drillerccg
May 2nd, 2013, 02:37 PM
Hi,

Have a Dell Latitude E6500 with nvdia Quadro NVS 160M video card. The resolution is set at 1920x1200 which makes things quite small on a 15 inch screen. I was hoping to get 1440x900.

The xorg.conf was deleted and created again by using


sudo nvidia-xconfig

I've tried editing this and adding the resolutions manually but was not able to get any more choices so I returned to what the nvidia settings created. I can't change it in the nvidia Xserver Settings eithert (I don't know how)


Any help is appreciated.


# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 304.88 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-14) Wed Mar 27 15:36:45 PDT 2013

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
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"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

dino99
May 2nd, 2013, 05:29 PM
using xconfig is the old way when xorg.conf was used; now the kernel detect then set the right settings itself

drillerccg
May 2nd, 2013, 07:24 PM
The kernel has set the resolution to 1920x1200. Whish looks fine other than everything being sooooo small. I'd like to set it to 1440x900, hence my original post. Is there a way to do this? Neither Display in settings nor the nvidia xserver settings allows me. I'm not too familiar with the nvidia setting app, so if anyone can help I truly appreciate it.

papibe
May 2nd, 2013, 10:09 PM
Hi drillerccg.

Could you post the result of this command?

xrandr
Regards.

drillerccg
May 3rd, 2013, 01:52 AM
Hi Papibe,

Thanks for your help. Here is what you asked:


jr@jr-Latitude-E6500:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS-0 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 331mm x 207mm
1920x1200 60.0*+ 40.0
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

papibe
May 3rd, 2013, 03:24 AM
Thanks.

Unfortunately, nothing useful there.

Could you post the content of this file:

/var/log/Xorg.0.log
Please paste it here: paste.ubuntu.com (http://paste.ubuntu.com/), and then post back the link to it.

Regards.

drillerccg
May 3rd, 2013, 03:42 AM
http://paste.ubuntu.com/5627907/

papibe
May 3rd, 2013, 07:01 AM
Thanks.

Again, no gain.

Let's see if we can get something out of the monitor's EDID file.

Open 'Nvidia X Server Settings', select 'DFP-0 (name of your monitor)' from the left, and click on 'Acquire EDID' on the left. Save the file on your directory, zip it, and attach it to your next reply.

Regards.

drillerccg
May 3rd, 2013, 03:00 PM
Thanks again for all your help. I wasn't sure which format you wanted so I did both txt and binary.

Another thing that may help:

In addintional drivers, there are 4 entries for nVidia, the recommended one is active (current).
Other chices are Current-updates, version 173-updates, and version experimental 310. I tried one other one and it gave me a blank screen at boot, but another one worked the same. I think the current updates gave me blank screen and the experimental one worked as the recommended one but not sure. Sorry.

papibe
May 4th, 2013, 07:51 PM
This is your EDID file parsed:

parse-edid: parse-edid version 2.0.0
parse-edid: EDID checksum passed.

# EDID version 1 revision 3
Section "Monitor"
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
# Block type: 2:0 3:0
Identifier "LGD:8f01"
VendorName "LGD"
ModelName "LGD:8f01"
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
# Block type: 2:0 3:0
# DPMS capabilities: Active off:no Suspend:no Standby:no

Mode "1920x1200" # vfreq 59.970Hz, hfreq 75.323kHz
DotClock 151.700000
HTimings 1920 1950 1980 2014
VTimings 1200 1203 1209 1256
Flags "-HSync" "+VSync"
EndMode
Mode "1920x1200" # vfreq 39.980Hz, hfreq 75.323kHz
DotClock 151.700000
HTimings 1920 1950 1980 2014
VTimings 1200 1203 1209 1884
Flags "-HSync" "-VSync"
EndMode
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
# Block type: 2:0 3:0
EndSection

So the native resolutions are both 1920x1200.

Let's try to see if you have access to MetaModes. Could you post the result of these commands?

xrandr -q

xrandr -q --q1

nvidia-settings -q CurrentMetaMode
Regards.

drillerccg
May 5th, 2013, 09:57 AM
jr@jr-Latitude-E6500:~$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS-0 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 331mm x 207mm
1920x1200 60.0*+ 40.0
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)



jr@jr-Latitude-E6500:~$ xrandr -q --q1
SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh
*0 1920 x 1200 ( 331mm x 210mm ) *50 51
1 1920 x 1080 ( 331mm x 189mm ) 52
2 1600 x 1200 ( 276mm x 210mm ) 53
3 1280 x 1024 ( 221mm x 179mm ) 54
4 1280 x 720 ( 221mm x 126mm ) 55
5 1024 x 768 ( 176mm x 134mm ) 56
6 800 x 600 ( 138mm x 105mm ) 57
7 640 x 480 ( 110mm x 84mm ) 58
Current rotation - normal
Current reflection - none
Rotations possible - normal left inverted right
Reflections possible - X Axis Y Axis
jr@jr-Latitude-E6500:~$




jr@jr-Latitude-E6500:~$ nvidia-settings -q CurrentMetaMode

Attribute 'CurrentMetaMode' (jr-Latitude-E6500:0.0): id=50, switchable=yes, source=xconfig :: DPY-1: nvidia-auto-select @1920x1200 +0+0



is there a way other than to change resolution (in case we can't) to make everything to appear bigger? I attached a screenshot of how everythng looks. Thanks again for all your help.

papibe
May 6th, 2013, 04:12 AM
Try this:

nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="DFP-0: 1920x1200 { ViewPortIn=1280x720 }"
Let us know how it goes.
Regards.

drillerccg
May 6th, 2013, 04:33 AM
using the code above I tried all the resolution in the above post. The only one trhat actually looks good (but small) is the 1920x1200. The other ones are either not fitting the screen properly or I lose HD resolution. Any idea?

edit: here is a bit more information. This is a dual boot windows 7 machine. Si went to W7 that has everything look the proper size and see that it is set at the same resolution 1920x1200. But they have this setting "make text and other item appear bigger or smaller" setting and have that set at 150%. This way they are able to utilize the higher res but enlarge everything to be able to make it look bigger. I wonder if Ubuntu has that?

drillerccg
May 23rd, 2013, 03:27 PM
This problem still exists, I'd appreciate any help anyone can give me.