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**fasimmons** · 09-07-2009

I have an eMachine with a Samsung monitor.
The eMachine is an AMD64 with on the motherboard nVidia GeForce 6150 LE video.
It is an AMD Athlon 64x2 2.0Ghz with 2 g RAM.
I recently got Debian 5.0.2a for AMD64 and installed it in a dual os configuration.
Now I can get only 800 X 600 max resolution on the monitor when, under Windows XP , I get resolutions up to 1028 X 764 or above. I have looked all over the net to try to find a solution, but every thing I try leaves me with the same resolution.

oz · 09-07-2009

Welcome to the forums!

Post the contents of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file if you can so that we can see it and maybe offer up some help.

**fasimmons** · 09-08-2009

I looked into /etc/X11/xorg.conf and there was nothing there.

**fasimmons** · 09-09-2009

Ozar, what should be in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? It appears that, if this is supposed to contain information on my monitor and the resolutions that it can have, then that is the problem. When I looked into it, there was nothing there.

oz · 09-10-2009

The latest versions of xorg are pretty good at allowing a system to boot without any xorg.conf file at all. You can have a look at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file to see what the system is booting with now.

If you have the nvidia drivers installed, it can help create one for you with this command from a terminal:

Code:

nvidia-xconfig

You can also create one using either of the commands below:

Code:

Xorg -configure

or

Code:

X -configure

**Zeroangel** · 09-10-2009

If its a problem with monitor detection than writing a new xorg.conf might not solve it.

If its just a matter of the default resolution being too low, then sometime that can be fixed by running 'gksu nvidia-settings', selecting your preferred resolution, then clicking on 'save to X configuration file'.

Resolution problems are annoying to troubleshoot because there are so many methods to use, and only one of these will work.

I wish you luck though.

Fight!

**fasimmons** · 09-10-2009

I tried everything that Ozar suggested and got no results.
I then decided to write an xorg.conf file. It looks like this:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"

### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nv"
Card "* NVIDIA"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection

It works and I have everything up to 1280 x 1024 but the lower resolutions now do not fill the screen. I can work with the high res but will be trying some other things...

**devils casper** · 09-10-2009

Have you installed Nvidia driver?
After Nvidia driver installation, replace nv with nvidia in xorg.conf file.

Code:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
Card "* NVIDIA"
EndSection

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