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PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:48 pm    Post subject: Unable to change from native resolution with nvidia-drivers Reply with quote

Hi,

I am using git-sources-3.7-rc6 nvidia-drivers 310.19, and a relatively updated mesa/X server/etc
My hardware is a NVidia Quadro NVS160M (G98) on a laptop

I am unable to change my default and native resolution. nvidia-settings report no other resolution, all non-native resolutions mentioned in xorg.conf are rejected
Code:

[ 42262.112] (**) NVIDIA(0): Using HorizSync/VertRefresh ranges from the EDID for display
[ 42262.112] (**) NVIDIA(0):     device LGD (DFP-0) (Using EDID frequencies has been
[ 42262.112] (**) NVIDIA(0):     enabled on all display devices.)
[ 42262.113] (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "DFP-0:1600x1200"; removing.
[ 42262.113] (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "DFP-0:1280x800"; removing.
[ 42262.113] (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "DFP-0:1024x768"; removing.
[ 42262.113] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:
[ 42262.113] (II) NVIDIA(0):     "DFP-0:1920x1200"
[ 42262.113] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1920 x 1200
[ 42263.180] (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (147, 145); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
[ 42263.181] (--) NVIDIA(0):     option
[ 42263.181] (**) NVIDIA(0): Disabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals.
[ 42263.181] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[ 42263.181] (II) NVIDIA: Using 768.00 MB of virtual memory for indirect memory access.
[ 42263.185] (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI: failed to connect to the ACPI event daemon; the daemon
[ 42263.185] (II) NVIDIA(0):     may not be running or the "AcpidSocketPath" X
[ 42263.185] (II) NVIDIA(0):     configuration option may not be set correctly.  When the
[ 42263.185] (II) NVIDIA(0):     ACPI event daemon is available, the NVIDIA X driver will
[ 42263.185] (II) NVIDIA(0):     try to use it to receive ACPI event notifications.  For
[ 42263.185] (II) NVIDIA(0):     details, please see the "ConnectToAcpid" and
[ 42263.185] (II) NVIDIA(0):     "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration options in Appendix B: X
[ 42263.185] (II) NVIDIA(0):     Config Options in the README.
[ 42263.189] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "DFP-0:1920x1200"

Forcing a lower resolution with xrandr -s 1024x768 makes visible only the upper left part of my desktop.
Wine games (here RA3:Uprising) that try to force a resolutions either fail with messages like
Code:

err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 1024x768x32 @0! (XRandR 1.2)


or just view the upper left part (like new XCOM)

I do not remember having this issue with older versions of nvidia-drivers, but idk how they were, I've been using nouveau for long time.
Everything works fine with nouveau. The reason I want to use the binariy driver is both the 3D speed (necessary for such an old hardware) and that some games report that some 3D feature is not supported by hardware

Any help?
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you try disabling EDID?
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 4:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I believe you can configure ViewPort In/Out and Panning in the "Advanced" options to achieve non-native resolution. This is what the older version (before 300) did automatically under the hood when you choose a lower resolution, now the code in the newer version was rewritten and you still need to do it manually
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 4:54 pm    Post subject: Re: Unable to change from native resolution with nvidia-driv Reply with quote

galanom wrote:
Wine games

Recompile wine, adding: --without-xrandr
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 5:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hi. i heave the same problem. is there someone who can explain me what exactly i should set in nvidia-settings to get 1024x768 resolution on laptop screen (with 1920x1080 default) and simultaneusly the same 1024x768 on the cloned external screen?

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 7:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've also been running into similar issues.

The latest stable nvidia-drivers are disallowing many video modes that seemed to work fine before.

After Google-ing around, I ran across a forum post that helped me:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/188060/force-video-mode-without-edid-information

I changed up my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf as follows (I also could have shoe-horned similar changes into xorg.conf if I was set up that way):

Code:
Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "KDS"
    ModelName      "Proview"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 98.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 160.0

    Modeline "1152x864"    108.00   1152 1228 1356 1600    864  865  868  900 +hsync +vsync
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
  Identifier     "Screen0"
  Device "Nvidia Graphics"
  Monitor        "Monitor0"
  Option "UseEdid" "False"
  Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "True"
  Option "ModeDebug" "True"
  DefaultDepth    24
  SubSection     "Display"
    Depth       24
    Modes      "1152x864"
  EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Identifier "Nvidia Graphics"
  Driver "nvidia"
EndSection


The Option "ModeDebug" "True" change was helpful for listing many more valid modes once I turned off EDID with Option "UseEdid" "False"
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