Nvidia Problems

[Derrick Edwards]

On Sunday 07 January 2007 16:21, bnawrock at umich.edu wrote:
	I am using 6_STABLE(FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE). I created another xorg.conf 
adding your suggested option. Below is what I get from /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

 (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0
(WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1600x1050"; removing.
(WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1280x1024"; removing.
(WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1024x768"; removing.
(WW) NVIDIA(0):
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to validate any modes; falling back to the default mod
e
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     "nvidia-auto-select".
(WW) NVIDIA(0):
(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "nvidia-auto-select"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 800 x 600
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device DFP-0's EDID; cannot compute DPI
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     from DFP-0's EDID.
(==) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (75, 75); computed from built-in default

xorg.conf snippet:
Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    Option         "UseEDID" "FALSE"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
    Depth       24
    Modes      "1600x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
EndSection




> I know of a few EDID issues with the current nvidia driver. are you 
> using freebsd-7-CURRENT?
>
> Try adding Option "UseEDID" "FALSE" to the Screen section in your X
> configuration file. Hopefully future NVIDIA X driver versions should do
> a better job of detecting invalid EDIDs. Let me know if that solves the
> issues.
>
> -nawcom
>
> On Sunday 07 January 2007 12:34, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > > Derrick Edwards wrote:
> >> > > 	Hi,
> >> > > I cant seem to get my new nvidia card to dispaly the correct
> >> > > resolution. Looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log I see these entries. My
> >> > > max resolution is "1600x1050" but it is not letting me use it.
> >> > >
> >> > > (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1600x1050"; removing.
> >> > > (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1280x1024"; removing.
> >> > > (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
> >> > > (II) NVIDIA(0):     "1024x768"
> >> > > (II) NVIDIA(0):     "800x600"
> >> > > (II) NVIDIA(0):     "640x480"
> >> > > (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1024 x 768
> >> > >
> >> > > I configured Xorg using nvidia-settings.
> >> > >
> >> > > Section "ServerLayout"
> >> > >     Identifier     "Layout0"
> >> > >     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> >> > >     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> >> > >     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> >> > > EndSection
> >> > >
> >> > > Section "Files"
> >> > >     RgbPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> >> > >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
> >> > >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> >> > >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> >> > >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> >> > >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
> >> > >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> >> > >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> >> > >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
> >> > >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
> >> > > 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/sysmouse"
> >> > >     Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> >> > >     Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> >> > > EndSection
> >> > >
> >> > > Section "InputDevice"
> >> > >
> >> > >     # generated from default
> >> > >     Identifier     "Keyboard0"
> >> > >     Driver         "keyboard"
> >> > > EndSection
> >> > >
> >> > > Section "Monitor"
> >> > >     Identifier     "Monitor0"
> >> > >     VendorName     "Unknown"
> >> > >     ModelName      "Unknown"
> >> > >     HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
> >> > >     VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
> >> > >     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      "1600x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
> >>
> >> "640x480"
> >>
> >> > >     EndSubSection
> >> > > EndSection
> >> > >
> >> > > Please help
> >> > > Thanks Derrick
> > >
> > > Monitor horizontal and vertical sync set correctly?
> > >
> > > That seems the only viable explanation other than your card doesn't
> > > support that resolution.
> > >
> > > -Garrett
> > > _________
>
> 	Thanks for the reply. My card supports up to 1600x1200 and the freqs
> are correct.
>
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