Nvidia Problems

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sun Jan 7 17:34:33 UTC 2007


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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
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