FC4 screen resolution problem
Jean François Ortolo
ortolojf at free.fr
Wed Oct 12 16:31:34 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 10:25 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On 10/12/05, Jean François Ortolo <ortolojf at free.fr> wrote:
> [snip]
> > Section "Device"
> > Identifier "Videocard0"
> > Driver "vesa"
> > VendorName "ASUS"
> > BoardName "GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)"
> > videoram 0
> > EndSection
>
> I doubt you will get very high screen resolution with the vesa driver.
> I highly suggest that you install the nvidia driver and use it. To
> do that, install the driver as root, then change the "vesa" above to
> "nvidia" and start X. By the way, are you running 32-bit FC4 or
> 64-bit? I also highly suggest 64-bit since you have an Athlon64 in
> which case you will need to get the x86_64 nvidia driver. I don't
> know if the "nv" driver works with the newer cards, but you could also
> try that one if you do not want to install the nvidia binary driver.
>
> > Section "Screen"
> > Identifier "Screen0"
> > Device "Videocard0"
> > Monitor "Monitor0"
> > DefaultDepth 24
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 16
> > Modes "800x600" "640x480"
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 24
> > Modes "800x600" "640x480"
> > EndSubSection
> > EndSection
>
> You will need to add in the modes you want to use too, as has been stated.
>
> [snip]
> >
> > Jean Francois Ortolo
>
> Jonathan
>
Thank you very much Sir
I have been trying only 1024x768 and 800x600, I doubt the vesa driver
doesn't support 1024x768.
I already tried the nVidia IA32 driver, for I presume I have 32-bits
FC4, it was the only one available on ftp.free.fr , if I'm not wrong, at
the time I downloaded it.
With the IA32 nVidia driver, I have get exactly the same problem as
now, before uninstalling it to return to the vesa driver.
I send the xorg.conf content according to the problem:
-------------------------------------------------------------
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name
of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "LG"
ModelName "Flatron L1730S"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
VendorName "ASUS"
BoardName "GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)"
videoram 0
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
------------------------------------------------
Theoretically, there shouldn't be any error in this file, no ?
The problem occurs only when I startx as normal user, when I startx as
root all goes fine.
Thank you very much for your help.
Best regards.
Jean Francois Ortolo
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