Nvidia card/driver and 2560x1440 Monitor

[sylar666]

Well, I think it's not necesary to start another thread, it seems the problem I'm going to explain maybe related to this Xorg.conf.

Ok, so I have finally the multy monitor set up nice and today I bought several linux games at steam.
I'm trying some games and everything seems to work, until I check killing floor, (others like FTL and PENUMBRA failed too, so its not a specific game issue), the game starts and the X screen crashes. I see the blue light from the shimian monitor blinking and I have to restart the X server to come back to life.

Windowed mode in these games works. First I'm trying to solve here is what the problem is
Scalating? Xorg.conf? OpenGL?

Are you experiencing the same issues?

EDIT: Well, everything is a little messed up, first of all, I managed to make some games work by manually adding to the .ini and .cong files the monitor resolution. Unfortunately, It's not possible (or I can't) to use this solution with all games/software. I.e. opening XBMC directly kills the Shimian monitor and arrange the layout telling me there is only the 190x1080 monitor, and so on...
How can I make my xorg.conf to eork properly?

[sinsterizme]

THANK YOU OP - you are a life saver!
Just to help anyone who reads this this xorg.conf worked for 1 catleap monitor and a gtx 670:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Shimian"
    ModelName      "QHD270"
    HorizSync      88.8
    VertRefresh    59.5
    Option         "DPMS"
    Modeline       "2560x1440" 241.50  2560 2608 2640 2720  1440 1443 1448 1481 +hsync -vsync
    DisplaySize    597 336
EndSection


Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce GTX 670"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    Option         "UseEDID" "False"
    Option         "UseEDIDDPI" "False"
    Option         "UseEDIDFreqs" "False"
    Option         "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "True"
    Option         "metamodes" "2560x1440_60 +0 +0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Just a tip, if you can't even get to a tty shell (for example my monitor turned off if I tried to) then just put the file on a usb, boot into grub > recover mode > fsck > root
now you have a console and simply move the file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Again, awesome work for figuring this out

[ShamoIdol]

My particular model is QNIX QX2710

When I got it was not working but I've fixed with "modeline". There's a lot of info on this.

However when I upgrade to kubuntu 13.04 raring the 'kde plasma workspace' stopped working. I.e. lightkdm showed it's login screen but when I hit Enter after few secs the monitor starts flickering (red,blue,green then stripes etc).

After spending couple of hours (playing with edid etc) finally I've easy workaround:

Just when you enter login/pass and hit Enter switch termorary to terminal with Ctrl-Alt-F1, wait few secs till it boots and then switch back with Alt+7.

While this workaround is required for KDE GNOME (as in Ubuntu session) worked fine.

[boast]

Anyone got this running past 60Hz? I can't get it to work with anything but the 60hz modeline from cvt

[ShamoIdol]

Anyone got this running past 60Hz? I can't get it to work with anything but the 60hz modeline from cvt

cvt tool didn't work for me either.

[ShamoIdol]

Here's my config for dual monitors in portrait mode:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "QNIX"
    ModelName      "QX2710"
    HorizSync      88.8
    VertRefresh    59.5
    Option         "DPMS"
    # 60
    Modeline       "2560x1440" 241.50  2560 2608 2640 2720  1440 1443 1448 1481 +hsync -vsync
    
    #DisplaySize    597 336 # one monitor 
    DisplaySize    672 597 # two in portrait mode
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8800 GTS"
    BusId          "PCI:5:0:0" # eGPU
    Option          "Coolbits" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option         "UseEDID" "False"
    Option         "UseEDIDDPI" "False"
    Option         "UseEDIDFreqs" "False"
    Option         "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "True"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: 2560x1440_60 +0 +0 { Rotation=left }, DFP-1: 2560x1440 +1440 +0 { Rotation=right }"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

I run this using Thinkpad x220 and PH4E eGPU card with GF 8800 GTS attached. Everything is pretty smooth. No lags or hangouts. Now looking for a way to make it tripple head.
The only noticed problem is lag while scrolling extreamly heavy pages (mostily forums) in Firefox.

[ShamoIdol]

I've finally got it overclocked to 100Hz using modeline I've got from
http://www.overclock.net/t/1225919/y...itor-club/2290
(as I said that forums slows down my whole desktop)

Here's my new xorg.conf:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "QNIX"
    ModelName      "QX2710"
    Option         "DPMS"

	# 100Hz
	VertRefresh 43 - 120
	HorizSync 28 - 200
	Modeline "2560x1440" 400.00 2560 2592 2612 2692 1440 1443 1448 1480 +Hsync +Vsync
	
    #DisplaySize    597 336 # one monitor 
    DisplaySize    672 597 # two in portrait mode
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
	BoardName	   "GeForce 8800 GTS"
	BusId          "PCI:5:0:0" # eGPU on ThinkPad x220
	Option			"Coolbits" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
	
	Option "UseEDID" "FALSE"
	Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "True"
	Option "ModeValidation" "NoVertRefreshCheck, NoHorizSyncCheck, NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck, NoMaxSizeCheck, NoMaxPClkCheck, NoEDIDModes"

	# one landscape
    #Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: 2560x1440 +0 +0"

	# two portrait
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: 2560x1440 +0 +0 { Rotation=left }, DFP-1: 2560x1440 +1440 +0 { Rotation=right }"

    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

[jonkul2]

Running Ubuntu 13.04, with Nvidia's 325 drivers via xorg-edgers. After finally getting the drivers to work without bricking the whole install, it turned out I was still limited to 1024x768 because of my Catleap. Fixing the xorg.conf like you've described in this thread actually helped, but now I'm limited to 1600x1200 instead. =/ I've tried several of xorg.conf posted here, but can't make any progress.
Does anyone know how to fix my problem?

[xalu]

Hi All,

I wanted to thank the op for this. I was having a killer time getting my Korean Crossover 27QW to work with ubuntu nvidia 331.20 drivers I installed( for anyone having issues installing the nvidia driver for ubuntu 13.10. Use this repo http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/ubuntu-x-swat with this guide http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-t...0-399182.shtml, I tried a million ways and this was the only one that worked. The edgers ppa doesn't work.

After I ran sudo nvidia-config. Then sudo nvidia settings. Used the assigned names to make changes in the xorg file. Here is my xorg. My major change to get me smasung 27" monitor to work was to enable the "UseEDID" If I set it to false, then my samsung monitor wasn't detected. Maybe this will help someone else. So just delete all the EDID false options and your second monitor should be detected.

# James Set up based on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2038997



Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Crossover"
    ModelName      "27QW"
    HorizSync      88.8
    VertRefresh    59.5
    Option         "DPMS"
    Modeline       "2560x1440" 241.50  2560 2608 2640 2720  1440 1443 1448 1481 +hsync -vsync
    DisplaySize    597 336  
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce GTX 660"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option         "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "True"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: 2560x1440_60 +0 +0, DFP-1: 1920x1080_60 +2560+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

[Vr_Rm]

Holy Crap! It's things like this that make me wonder if I have any competance to even come near a computer, this after being a computer programer professionally, on Linux, for the last 20+ years. Though before blaming the sorry state of Linux device configuration, don't forget about the sorrier state of Windows device configuration where I still haven't been able to get this to work.

So, there might be better ways to do this, but if you have an NVIDIA GTX5XX series video card, eg GTX 560M, and are connecting with an HDMI cable to a Samsung UD590, you'll get hit with a double whammy.

First you'll need to make a change to your xorg.conf file to overcome the 30Ghz limitation of HDMI:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "LGD"
    HorizSync       44.4 - 66.6
    VertRefresh     39.9 - 59.9
    ModeLine       "2560x1440@30" 148.78 2560 2696 2968 3376 1440 1441 1444 1469 -hsync +vsync
    # Above params recalibrated for 30Ghz --^    -- ^  --^ ....
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

But you'll also need to make the following change to overcome a bug in either the monitor firmware or Nvidia driver for checksums:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "ModeValidation" "AllowNon60hzmodesDFPModes, NoEDIDDFPMaxSizeCheck, NoVertRefreshCheck, NoHorizSyncCheck, NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck, NoMaxSizeCheck, NoMaxPClkCheck, AllowNonEdidModes, NoEdidMaxPClkCheck"
    # Switch off a bunch of features, I have no idea what all (any really) of them mean  --^
    Option         "Stereo" "0"
    Option         "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "LVDS-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, HDMI-0: 2560x1440@30 +1920+0"
    Option         "SLI" "Off"
    Option         "MultiGPU" "Off"
    Option         "BaseMosaic" "off"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Of course even after this, you'll still limited to 2560x1440 or whatever the capabilities are of your GTX 5xx card (it won't magically upgrade your 5xx series card to be magically 4K). But you won't be stuck at 1920x1080.