Bug 61484 – 1280x800 screen resolution no longer works with >=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6106 and >=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6106

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2004-08-24 03:01:05 UTC]

After upgrading to >=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6106 and >=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6106 my screen resolution of 1280x800 (on a Toshiba Satellite Pro M30) no longer works. This happens with both xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 and x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.99.902.

The attached xorg.conf works fine with nvidia-kernel-1.0.5336-r4 and nvidia-glx-1.0.5336-r2 with both xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 and x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.99.902. When I use it with the newer versions of nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx X starts in 1024x768.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
X starts in 1024x768.

Expected Results:  
X starts in 1280x800.

Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0,
2.6.8-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-pipe -march=pentium3 -msse2 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-pipe -march=pentium3 -msse2 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage-overlay/my"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cscope cups dvd dvdr
encode esd evo foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib innodb java jpeg
libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mono motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail
mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python
quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype
x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2004-08-24 03:01:34 UTC]

Created attachment 38081 [details]
/etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Comment 2 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2004-08-24 03:01:56 UTC]

Created attachment 38082 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

[Comment 3 Andrew Bevitt 2004-08-24 08:04:00 UTC]

nVidia did release 6111 shortly after 6106 with fixes for resolution difficulties in it.. Please confirm you are experiencing the problem there aswell.

[Comment 4 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2004-08-24 10:20:25 UTC]

I think my initial report was ambigious, for which I apologize: I have the problem with nvidia-kernel/nvidia-glx *starting* with 6106. So far I experienced the problem with 6106 and 6111.

[Comment 5 Andrew Bevitt 2004-08-27 09:56:26 UTC]

#Option     "IgnoreEDID"                # [<bool>]

Try setting this to True, and commenting out the option that says to use the EDID frequencies.

[Comment 6 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2004-08-27 12:06:21 UTC]

Created attachment 38321 [details]
/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Updated xorg.conf.

[Comment 7 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2004-08-27 12:07:05 UTC]

Created attachment 38322 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

Updated Xorg.0.log.

[Comment 8 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2004-08-27 12:08:57 UTC]

After making the recommended changes in my xorg.conf X still starts in 1024x768 ("(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "1280x800" (vrefresh out of range)").

[Comment 9 Andrew Bevitt 2004-08-27 16:24:02 UTC]

Try increasing the range of your Vertical Refresh, from what I can find on the net the vsync is most probably > 60 for that resolution, recommend trying 50 - 80 (and then if that doesnt work try 50 - 150)..

Unless you can provide some doco that says otherwise.

[Comment 10 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2004-08-27 22:48:01 UTC]

Looks like I had to decrease the Vertical Refresh:

  (**) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes for display device DFP-0:
  (**) NVIDIA(0):      Mode "1280x800": 70.0 MHz, 41.5 kHz, 49.3 Hz

Thank you for helping me figuring this out!

[Comment 11 Andrew Bevitt 2004-08-27 23:58:19 UTC]

OK thanks closing.