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Post subject: low monitor resolution after dist-upgrade
 Posted: 22.02.2011, 01:37
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I have been using an Asus 23.5 inch monitor with aptosid for about two months and it worked well at 1920x1080 resolution. I did a dist-upgrade and now the monitor will only run at 1280x1024 resolution with about three inches of blank space on each side of the desktop. The video card is a GeForce4 MX 4000 and a run of hwinfo shows it needs driver "nv" or driver "nvidia". My old Kubunto (on another hard disk) shows that it uses the driver xserver-xorg-video-nv and it runs the monitor at full (1920x1080) resolution nicely. This driver is not available on the aptosid.
There is a nvidia-glx driver on aptosid package seaarch, but the description says it will only work for GeForce 6xxx or higher.
I tried installing xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (as per a suggenstion on the aptosid newsgroup warnings, but it didn't help my resolution problem.
How do I get my full screen resolution back?
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towo
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Posted: 22.02.2011, 06:27
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I tried installing xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
What, exact, you have done?
Nouveau should support your old nv card good, so we need more advice.
I'm thinking, you run an old kernel, so you don't have the nouveau kernel-module. Without this kernel-module, nouveau does not work. |
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arl
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Posted: 23.02.2011, 04:22
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I followed the directions given by "slam" in
http://aptosid.com/index.php?name=PNphp ... amp;p=5504
My kernel is:
arl@cledus-a:~/util$ uname -a
Linux cledus-a 2.6.37-1.slh.2-aptosid-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Feb 20 17:58:37 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The nouveau module appears to be present via:
arl@cledus-a:/etc/X11$ grep -B2 'Module class: X.Org Video Driver' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 19.288] (II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 19.288] compiled for 1.9.4, module version = 0.0.16
[ 19.288] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
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[ 19.349] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 19.349] compiled for 1.9.4, module version = 2.3.0
[ 19.349] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
Aptosid must be using the second driver (vesa) but I don't know how to make it use the first (nouveau).
Thanks for your reply, Al |
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towo
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Posted: 23.02.2011, 06:28
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Do not tell us prosa!
I want to see the Output of
aptosid-paste -s codepad /var/log/Xorg.0.log
dmesg | grep -i nouveau | aptosud-paste -s codepad
ls -al /etc/modprobe.d/ | aptosid-paste -s codepad |
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arl
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Posted: 23.02.2011, 18:42
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Here are the items you asked for:
arl@cledus-a:/etc/X11$ aptosid-paste -s codepad /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Pasting > 64 KB often tend to fail with codepad. Use --verbose or --debug to see the
error output from wget if it fails. Alternatively use another pastebin service.
Your paste can be seen here: http://codepad.org/KAc7bEWF
arl@cledus-a:/etc/X11$ dmesg | grep -i nouveau | aptosid-paste -s codepad
No input read. Nothing to paste. Aborting.
arl@cledus-a:/etc/X11$ ls -al /etc/modprobe.d/ | aptosid-paste -s codepad
Your paste can be seen here: http://codepad.org/AtVpK66M
Al |
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towo
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Posted: 23.02.2011, 18:45
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1. open /etc/default/grub with your favorite editor, remove vga=791 (as root)
2. update-grub
3. Reboot |
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arl
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Posted: 23.02.2011, 22:27
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| I changed grub as you requested. Now the console uses the full screen instead of a central portion (with the first column missing). Unfortunately, kde acts the same with 1280x1024 resolution. |
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towo
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Posted: 23.02.2011, 22:34
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Again and again and again!
Provide the relevant logfile, /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
dmesg | grep -i drm
lsmod | grep nouveau |
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arl
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Posted: 24.02.2011, 01:36
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root@cledus-a:/etc/default# aptosid-paste -s codepad /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Pasting > 64 KB often tend to fail with codepad. Use --verbose or --debug to see the
error output from wget if it fails. Alternatively use another pastebin service.
Your paste can be seen here: http://codepad.org/KOZivApa
root@cledus-a:/etc/default# dmesg | grep -i nouveau | aptosid-paste -s codepad
No input read. Nothing to paste. Aborting.
root@cledus-a:/etc/default# ls -al /etc/modprobe.d/ | aptosid-paste -s codepad
Your paste can be seen here: http://codepad.org/0kEZH766 |
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arl
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Posted: 24.02.2011, 01:50
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These produce nothing:
dmesg | grep -i drm
lsmod | grep nouveau |
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towo
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Posted: 24.02.2011, 06:27
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Have you blacklisted nouveau?
Wat does modprobe nouveau say? |
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BT
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Posted: 24.02.2011, 17:48
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What is in /etc/default/dmakms, /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and /usr/src ?
did you remove all traces off nvidia as asked by Slam ? |
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arl
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Posted: 24.02.2011, 18:02
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I did a search and couldn't find any blacklist files that contained nouveau.
Here is an output for modprobe nouveau:
arl@cledus-a:/etc/modprobe.d$ cat /tmp/modprobe.txt | aptosid-paste -s codepad
Your paste can be seen here: http://codepad.org/mbYCQF9h |
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arl
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Posted: 24.02.2011, 18:14
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To: BT
BT wrote:
What is in /etc/default/dmakms,?
There is no such file or directory.
BT wrote:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/?
There is no such file or directory.
BT wrote:
and /usr/src ?
linux-headers-2.6.34-0.slh.11-sidux-amd64 linux-headers-2.6.36-0.slh.3-aptosid-amd64 linux-headers-2.6.37-1.slh.2-aptosid-amd64
linux-headers-2.6.34-0.slh.9-sidux-amd64 linux-headers-2.6.37-1.slh.1-aptosid-amd64 linux-headers-2.6.37-1.slh.3-aptosid-amd64
BT wrote:
did you remove all traces off nvidia as asked by Slam ?
Yes, I did. |
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ayla
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Posted: 24.02.2011, 19:45
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If nvidia driver was installed before:
have you tried
Code:
apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core
to get the libs back nvidia has overwritten?
hth
ayla |
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