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Hey I've been googling around for a while now and have been unsuccessful in setting up the screen resolution up properly... I have the manual for my monitor in case ...
  1. 01-19-2010 #1
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    screen resoltion

    Hey I've been googling around for a while now and have been unsuccessful in setting up the screen resolution up properly...
    I have the manual for my monitor in case you ask for any of the specs. Other than unsuccessfully changing the xorg file, I've successfully went through the steps on Debians wiki site for NvidiaGraphicsDrivers in order to get my 9800gt working. If someone could assist me that would be great. I want to get the resolution up to 1400x900, but in the "Screen Resolution" window I only have the option for 640x480,50Hz

    xorg configuration file:

    Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Configured Mouse"
    Driver "mouse"
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    Identifier "Configured Video Device"
    Driver "nvidia"
    EndSection

    Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Configured Monitor"
    HorizSync 30-81
    VertRefresh 56-75
    EndSection

    Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Default Screen"
    Monitor "ACER X193W"
    DefaultDepth 24
    SubSection "Display"
    Depth 24
    Modes "1400x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x400"
    EndSubSection
    EndSection
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    Hi and Welcome !

    Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Configured Monitor"
    HorizSync 30-81
    VertRefresh 56-75
    EndSection
    Are those HorizSync and VertRefresh rates supported by your Monitor?
    Check Monitor's manual for supported Refresh Rates and set correct values in xorg.conf.
    These are Generic values supported by most of Monitors.
    Code:
    HorizSync 30-71
VertRefresh 50-160
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    Ya those are straight from the manual. I should let you know that manually entered all the Depth stuff, along with " Monitor 'ACERX193'", and 'Driver 'nvidia'" , and the modes
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    Have you set Driver "nvidia'' in xorg.conf file manually? Have you installed Nvidia Proprietary Driver?
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    Ya I set the Driver part manually as per the procedures on the Debian wiki for 3d Acceleration and whatnot for nvidia. No i have not installed the nvidia propriteary driver. I guess ill get to that. Ive done it before,
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    Ok so i got that driver installed and things have gotten better. I do get a bunch of options for resolution, but when I choose 1440x900, it goes all funky and red and such... i know my monitor does 1440x900. Wait... when I go onto the "Screen Resolution" window, it says the resolution is 1280x960. It has the option for 1440x900, but it doesnt change at all. The resolution looks nice now, maybe its actaully 1440x900 but it says otherwise??
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    Sorry about triple posting... When I rebooted the resolution goes back to being weird... not as bad as in the beginning though. Ive tried putting it back but its not quite the same...idk what to tell you
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    Did you edit anything else xorg.conf file?
    Post its contents again.
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    I've added stuff in the "Modes" portion...


    # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
    # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder5 Wed Dec 9 16:34:26 PST 2009

    Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "Layout0"
    Screen 0 "Screen0"
    InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    EndSection

    Section "Files"
    EndSection

    Section "Module"
    Load "dbe"
    Load "extmod"
    Load "type1"
    Load "freetype"
    Load "glx"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier "Mouse0"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "auto"
    Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
    EndSection

    Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "Unknown"
    HorizSync 30 - 81
    VertRefresh 56 - 75
    Option "DPMS"
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device0"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    EndSection

    Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Device0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    SubSection "Display"
    Depth 24
    Modes "1400x900" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x400"
    EndSubSection
    EndSection
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    xorg.conf file looks correct to me.
    Install nvidia-xconfig and configure it.
    Code:
    apt-get install nvidia-xconfig
nvidia-xconfig
    In case it doesn't work, execute this
    Code:
    lsmod|grep 'rivafb\|vesafb\|nvidiafb'
glxinfo |grep rendering
    Post output here.
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