Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M and Fedora 10

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Dec 2 07:47:21 UTC 2008


Kevin Kempter wrote:
> On Monday 01 December 2008 22:28:33 Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Kevin Kempter <kevin at kevinkempterllc.com> 
>>     
> wrote:
>   
>>> Hi All;
>>>
>>> I've installed Fedora 10 on a new laptop with an Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M
>>> graphics card.  The card will do 1920x1200 resolution however the
>>> kmod-nvidia driver from rpmfusion doesnt work properly (at least I
>>> suspect the kmod-nvidia driver to be the issue - however I could be
>>> wrong)
>>>
>>> Once installed all the queries I can run such as xrand and
>>> nvidia-settings specify that I'm running at 1920x1200 however I know
>>> that's not true - I recently had CentOS installed and it (without the
>>> kmod-nvidia driver) gave me true 1920x1200 and the difference is huge.
>>>
>>> So, my hunch is that I'm slightly ahead of the curve per hardware and
>>> soon enough a driver that works with my video card will come along. 
>>> Meanwhile I've poked around at the nvidia site for linux drivers and I
>>> find that there is support for the FX 3700, but not the FX 3700M.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what the difference might be between the FX 3700 and the
>>> FX 3700 M (Mobile)? I wonder if it would be wise to download and install
>>> the FX 3700 driver and see if it works ?
>>>       
>> 177.82 should work fine.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> L. Friedman                                    netllama at gmail.com
>> LlamaLand                       https://netllama.linux-sxs.org
>>     
>
>
> I installed the FX 3700 driver (177.82)  and I now have a true 1920x1200 
> desktop - it looks great !
>
> However now I lost all my GL screensavers (none of 'em work) and no desktop 
> effects.  Here's the new xorg.conf (below).
>
> Anyone have any thoughts ?
>
> Note: I tried changing "vesa" in the Device section to "nvidia" and I get the 
> old resolution again.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>   
Does "glxinfo | grep rendering" say "direct rendering: Yes"?

I don't use the repo'd nVidia drivers.  I get mine directly from
nvidia.com and I did have a case once where I had to run their installer
twice in a row to get direct rendering Yes.

Also, check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log to make sure you see lines similar
to ...

(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
        compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
        Module class: X.Org Server Extension
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module  173.14.05  Mon May 19 00:30:52 PDT 2008
(II) Loading extension GLX

>
> # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf                                                                 
> # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display                                                   
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "single head configuration"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0              
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"     
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" 
> EndSection                                        
>
> Section "Files"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
> EndSection                                    
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
>         Option      "AIGLX" "on"
> EndSection                      
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # generated from default
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse" 
>         Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"    
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"      
> EndSection                                    
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # keyboard added by rhpxl
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"      
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"       
> EndSection                                 
>
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         ModelName    "LCD Panel 1920x1200"
>         HorizSync    31.5 - 74.5
>         VertRefresh  56.0 - 65.0
>         Option      "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "vesa"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Extensions"
>         Option      "Composite" "Enable"
> EndSection
>
>
>
>
>   


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