I'm frustrated at hell with this laptop resolution thing.
4.0 Daryna
Dell Vostro 1500
nVidia 8600m GT
3GB Ram
Under nvidia-settings it's 1280x800 60hz, under Administration Screens and Graphics its 1280x800 50hz and under Prefs Screen Resolution 1280x800 53hz!
What can I do to sort this? I've been trying to sort this for 3 days and being newish to linux i've messed up loads of times.
Every window or dialog thats opened seems to fill the screen and I know that aint right cause it worked and looked good under Xubuntu, I know thats Xfce but I can tell the difference.
Under XP 1280x800 60hz is what is reported if thats any help.
Please help me someone.
Andy
Resolution is gonna make me cry! solved
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Resolution is gonna make me cry! solved
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Re: Resolution is gonna make me cry!
It seems it is not resolution but refresh rate that is your problem
If you don't intend to use two monitors you disable that and the refresh rates are good. I did it on my system
You have to edit xorg.conf
Add
to Section "Device" as the last line
To get it working restart X (ctrl+backspace)
If you don't intend to use two monitors you disable that and the refresh rates are good. I did it on my system
You have to edit xorg.conf
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gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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Option "DynamicTwinView" "False"
To get it working restart X (ctrl+backspace)
Re: Resolution is gonna make me cry!
I entered that under Screen 0 and above ENDSECTION in the Device section but when I restarted X it messed up everything, the bottom of the screen was at the top, top left was bottom right and top right was at bottom left lol
I'm in XP at the moment I'll post my xorg.conf cause i've no idea what to do or what went wrong.
# xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by failsafeDexconf, using
# values from the debconf database and some overrides to use vesa mode.
#
# You should use dexconf or another such tool for creating a "real" xorg.conf
# For example:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "v4l"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Failsafe Device"
Boardname "vesa"
Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Failsafe Monitor"
Vendorname "Generic LCD Display"
Modelname "LCD Panel 1280x800"
Horizsync 31.5-50.0
Vertrefresh 56.0 - 65.0
modeline "640x480@60" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -vsync -hsync
modeline "800x600@56" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@60" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1024x768@60" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
Gamma 1.0
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Failsafe Device"
Monitor "Failsafe Monitor"
Defaultdepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768@60" "800x600@60" "800x600@56" "640x480@60"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0
Inputdevice "Generic Keyboard"
Inputdevice "Configured Mouse"
Inputdevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection
Section "device" #
Identifier "device1"
Boardname "vesa"
Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "screen" #
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Defaultdepth 24
Monitor "monitor1"
EndSection
Section "monitor" #
Identifier "monitor1"
Gamma 1.0
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection
I'm in XP at the moment I'll post my xorg.conf cause i've no idea what to do or what went wrong.
# xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by failsafeDexconf, using
# values from the debconf database and some overrides to use vesa mode.
#
# You should use dexconf or another such tool for creating a "real" xorg.conf
# For example:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "v4l"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Failsafe Device"
Boardname "vesa"
Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Failsafe Monitor"
Vendorname "Generic LCD Display"
Modelname "LCD Panel 1280x800"
Horizsync 31.5-50.0
Vertrefresh 56.0 - 65.0
modeline "640x480@60" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -vsync -hsync
modeline "800x600@56" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@60" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1024x768@60" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
Gamma 1.0
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Failsafe Device"
Monitor "Failsafe Monitor"
Defaultdepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768@60" "800x600@60" "800x600@56" "640x480@60"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0
Inputdevice "Generic Keyboard"
Inputdevice "Configured Mouse"
Inputdevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection
Section "device" #
Identifier "device1"
Boardname "vesa"
Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "screen" #
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Defaultdepth 24
Monitor "monitor1"
EndSection
Section "monitor" #
Identifier "monitor1"
Gamma 1.0
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection
Re: Resolution is gonna make me cry!
Ouch - your xorg.conf is crap
I've seen this before and it's the result of some fallback mechanism if everything goes absolutely wrong
I assumed you had a reasonably correct xorg.conf
However my advice is the correct solution to get better refresh rate
Somewhere in the forum there is a solution to this, but I can't expect you to find it, not to hard though
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... fe+Monitor
And as it tells you in that topic and in your topic
Now you have to install the nvidia driver again, but first back up your now working xorg.conf
First when everything works add the Twinview false line
If you can't log in to a normal x session you can start in "Recovery mode" - and now you are root - take care so you don't mess up.
You can run dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg in "Recovery mode" (no sudo - you are root already)
When you are done reboot - nothing else
I've seen this before and it's the result of some fallback mechanism if everything goes absolutely wrong
I assumed you had a reasonably correct xorg.conf
However my advice is the correct solution to get better refresh rate
Somewhere in the forum there is a solution to this, but I can't expect you to find it, not to hard though
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... fe+Monitor
And as it tells you in that topic and in your topic
And sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg gives you decent settings back.# You should use dexconf or another such tool for creating a "real" xorg.conf
# For example:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Now you have to install the nvidia driver again, but first back up your now working xorg.conf
First when everything works add the Twinview false line
If you can't log in to a normal x session you can start in "Recovery mode" - and now you are root - take care so you don't mess up.
You can run dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg in "Recovery mode" (no sudo - you are root already)
When you are done reboot - nothing else
Re: Resolution is gonna make me cry!
Worked a treat, thanks, now showing 60hz on everything though I dont know if the sceen is any better or not lol.
Does it matter that under nvidia-settings that X Server Display Configuration it says "unable to load page"?
Thanks again
Andy
Does it matter that under nvidia-settings that X Server Display Configuration it says "unable to load page"?
Thanks again
Andy
Re: Resolution is gonna make me cry!
nvidia settings is a bit special
Take look in the howto section There's a sticky there by me on how to make nvidia settings persistent
Take look in the howto section There's a sticky there by me on how to make nvidia settings persistent