My screen (dell xps m1530) supports 1920x1200 resolution and works correctly with NVIDIA under RHEL5. However, under gentoo it will not support the correct resolution. Added: Option "Metamodes" "1920x1200" No affect. When configuring through nvidia-settings it ignores the given config and autodetects wrong... NV driver works fine... except it doesn't have the performance and other things break. Reproducible: Always
emerge --info? emerge -vp x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers?
nvidia drivers:169.09 nvidia-settings 169.07 Also tried previous version and current from the NVIDIA site. merge --info nvidia-drivers --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.unmask: =sys-power/suspend Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24.4 i686) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24.4 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7800 @ 2.60GHz Timestamp of tree: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:00:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa apm avi berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kerberos ldap libg++ libnotify lm_sensors mad midi mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl pmu png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl startup-notification svg tcpd tiff tk truetype unicode vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 i810 imstt mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= >>> Attempting to run pkg_info() for 'x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-169.09' * pkg_info() is not defined: 'nvidia-drivers-169.09.ebuild'
Adding myself to the CC list
Chainsaw is taking over this package.
Note that 1920x1200 will require reduced blanking if you are using a single link DVI cable. This may in fact be the issue, as ReducedBlanking is no longer enabled by default. Please use this image to determine whether your current display cable is dual-link capable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DVI_Connector_Types.svg If not, replacing the display cable may alleviate the issue. Should that not be an option, you may want to read up on the ReducedBlanking options in the X.Org server (RHEL will be using an older variant) as described in bug #135544. Failing that, there are several new drivers for you to try: 173.14.05 173.14.09 177.13 (masked) This is very unlikely to be an nvidia-driver (or nvidia-settings) issue, and as such I am closing the bug with a test request. Do feel free to reopen the bug if these instructions do not resolve the problem, but I will need to know what DVI cable is in use and whether you are aiming to use single-link DVI with reduced blanking or dual-link DVI with regular GTF (General Timing Formula) blanking.
