I just updated my nvidia driver to 331.49. This is built with the 3.13 kernel. After starting X, the only available resolution is 640x480 on my 27" display. After uinstalling, the nouveau driver will run at 2560x1440.
Has anyone else tried the 331.49 driver with success?
Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
Did you run nvidia-settings program as root and try making settings there?
What driver did you use ?
as in what did you use ?
the “repo way” or “the Hard Way”
i am using NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.38.run right now
near the end of the .run install it configures xorg.conf
or are you using the rpm in the repos
from this
After uinstalling, the nouveau driver will run at 2560x1440.
it sounds like you did not blacklist the nouveau driver and rebuild the boot image with nouveau removed before switching the driver
In addition to this advice, you might want to observe /var/log/Xorg.0.log for information which might point to the cause. This behaviour can happen with some monitors that don’t EDID properly, (and some analog VGA cables/connections can be the cause of this too).
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:16:01 GMT
pilotgi <pilotgi@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> I just updated my nvidia driver to 331.49. This is built with the 3.13
> kernel. After starting X, the only available resolution is 640x480 on
> my 27" display. After uinstalling, the nouveau driver will run at
> 2560x1440.
>
> Has anyone else tried the 331.49 driver with success?
>
>
No, but I had the same trouble when I tried to install 331.38 from
http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/13.1/ with 3.13 kernel. I backed
off the kernel to 3.11.9(?), re-installed 331.38 and got the correct
resolution.
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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 13.1 (64-bit); KDE 4.12.2; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Kernel: 3.11.10; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nVidia driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
I’ve never used the xconfig tool before, but after installing the 331.49 driver again, I tried it to see what would happen. Now my resolution is 2560x1440 again and I have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file that was just created.
I thought the xorg.conf file was deprecated several versions of openSUSE ago.
Actually, the deprecation is down to the Xorg server versions, not openSUSE-specific. However, it can still be used to explicitly set parameters to override defaults, or incorrectly detected settings if necessary.
Thanks for the info and thanks to all who responded.