Hey guys,
Sorry to make another post like this, I know that there are many already out there; however, none of them have been able to help me.
I recently installed 11.2 and am now trying to increase the maximum screen resolution.
When I go to ‘confifure desktop’ > ‘display’ it will not let me increase the maxiumum screen resolution past 800X600.
My nVidia 6150 LE drivers/kernal are installed, so I’m not sure quite what to do.
Thanks for any help!
Assuming you have the proprietary nvidia driver installed. Did you try using the ‘nvidia-settings’ utility to configure?
Just to make sure about which driver is in use:
/sbin/lspci -nnk
Thanks for the reply,
How should I go about accessing the nvidia settings?
also, the command you gave me turned up this error.
/sbin/lspci: invalid option -- '-'
Usage: lspci <switches>]
Basic display modes:
-mm Produce machine-readable output (single -m for an obsolete format)
-t Show bus tree
Display options:
-v Be verbose (-vv for very verbose)
-k Show kernel drivers handling each device
-x Show hex-dump of the standard part of the config space
-xxx Show hex-dump of the whole config space (dangerous; root only)
-xxxx Show hex-dump of the 4096-byte extended config space (root only)
-b Bus-centric view (addresses and IRQ's as seen by the bus)
-D Always show domain numbers
Resolving of device ID's to names:
-n Show numeric ID's
-nn Show both textual and numeric ID's (names & numbers)
-q Query the PCI ID database for unknown ID's via DNS
-qq As above, but re-query locally cached entries
-Q Query the PCI ID database for all ID's via DNS
Selection of devices:
-s <domain>]:]<bus>]:]<slot>].<func>]] Show only devices in selected slots
-d <vendor>]:<device>] Show only devices with specified ID's
Other options:
-i <file> Use specified ID database instead of /usr/share/pci.ids.gz
-p <file> Look up kernel modules in a given file instead of default modules.pcimap
-M Enable `bus mapping' mode (dangerous; root only)
PCI access options:
-A <method> Use the specified PCI access method (see `-A help' for a list)
-O <par>=<val> Set PCI access parameter (see `-O help' for a list)
-G Enable PCI access debugging
-H <mode> Use direct hardware access (<mode> = 1 or 2)
-F <file> Read PCI configuration dump from a given file
Thanks again for the reply
Type the command from a console
nvidia-settings
It should be
/sbin/lspci -nnk
(not with --)
Thanks again,
After running
nvidia-settings
the konsole returned
If 'nvidia-settings' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
cnf nvidia-settings
the result of
/sbin/lspci -nnk
was
00:00.0 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge [10de:02f0] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
00:00.1 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 [10de:02fa] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
00:00.2 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 [10de:02fe] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
00:00.3 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 [10de:02f8] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
00:00.4 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 [10de:02f9] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
00:00.5 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge [10de:02ff] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
00:00.6 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 [10de:027f] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
00:00.7 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 [10de:027e] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
00:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge [10de:02fc] (rev a1)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge [10de:02fb] (rev a1)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE] [10de:0241] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
00:09.0 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge [10de:0270] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
00:0a.0 ISA bridge [0601]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge [10de:0260] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
00:0a.1 SMBus [0c05]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus [10de:0264] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
Kernel driver in use: nForce2_smbus
00:0a.2 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 [10de:0272] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
00:0b.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller [10de:026d] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:0b.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller [10de:026e] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:0d.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE [10de:0265] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
Kernel driver in use: pata_amd
00:0e.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller [10de:0266] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
Kernel driver in use: sata_nv
00:0f.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller [10de:0267] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
Kernel driver in use: sata_nv
00:10.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge [10de:026f] (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio [10de:026c] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:14.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller [10de:0269] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
Kernel driver in use: k8temp
03:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Agere Systems FW322/323 [11c1:5811] (rev 61)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
03:0a.0 Communication controller [0780]: Agere Systems Lucent V.92 Data/Fax Modem [11c1:0620]
Subsystem: Agere Systems Lucent V.92 Data/Fax Modem [11c1:0620]
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE] [10de:0241] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a3a]
No driver is installed.
Please explain how you think you installed it
I was looking through the package manager and the x11 g02 and the kernel were installed.
In any case, I installed a few more packages, while to fix another problem, and it seems to be working
Good.
Please be careful about randomly just installing stuff.
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