Screen shift

[arijitnit]

HI,
I have opensuse 10.2 installed in my machine and an nvidia 6600gt graphics card.
I have a strange problem. while I load linux,the screen is shifted to the left,which cuts off pixels from my left.
It is perfectly all right in windoes.strangely.my On screen display is not working.so I am in a fix.
I trid xvidtune as said in google but I get the following error: -

Xlib: extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display ":0.0".
Unable to query video extension version

Plz help me..it is a very irritating problem

[gogalthorp]

Have you tried to run

Yast-Hardware-Graphics card Monitor

??

This should allow you to adjust the position

[Dooghy]

Also, try to reinstall the NVidia drivers. Do this by using YAST.

Here you can find on how to do it:

NVIDIA - openSUSE

I also had problems in getting my display to work fine and only after I reinstall the drivers I could fix the problems (I've had problems with the refresh rate; basically I almost couldn't look at the monitor). By reinstaling them using YAST you are sure you're using the right NVidia drivers compiled for Suse distros.

[redbook]

I had the same problem - try setting the screen refresh rate to 75 hz in sax2 this worked on one machine for me. On the other one I had to set it to 54 hz, both are now fine.

[arijitnit]

when I go to yast hardware graphics card monitor my x crashes.
I have tried reinstalling my nvidia driver..
and changing the refresh rate makes the matter bad to worse..
even the keys in my monitor are not working..wat the heck?

[gogalthorp]

What install instructions are you using? You should use the hard way in above referenced page above.

Be sure that you have gcc, kernel source, and make installed before trying.

Be sure you get the right driver for your card from the NVIDIA site.

If you have a video card on the mother board be sure that it is disabled in the BIOS.