HP HDX 64 Bit Laptop, Nvidia Display issue

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Hello,
I am having an issue with my display… I updates on open-suse.org/nvidia and used the one click install. Here is the issue, I have a 1080p HD display 18.4 in screen Nvidia 9600GT display adapter so I would think the display would look awsome. this is not the case, I have my display set to 24bit and screen set to 1920X180 60 Hz, the size is correct and the color resolution is where I want it to be set. the boot splash screen is granny, and so is the desktop back ground.

Another issue is that after the Nvidia update now when I am typing along my screen goes to screen saver and locks now, I have screen saver turned off and the password protect turned off.

35: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Halld/devices/pci_10de_649
Unique ID: VCu0.Nrxdxmado14
Parent ID: vSkL.KcfarPM+5y9
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: “nVidia GeForce 9600M GT”
Vendor: pci 0x10de “nVidia Corporation”
Device: pci 0x0649 “GeForce 9600M GT”
SubVendor: pci 0x103c “Hewlett-Packard Company”
SubDevice: pci 0x3610
Revision: 0xa1
Memory Range: 0xd2000000-0xd2ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff (rw,prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd1ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0x7000-0x7fff (rw)
IRQ: 11 (no events)
I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
Module Alias: “pci:v000010DEd00000649sv0000103Csd00003610bc03sc00i00”
Driver Info #0:
XFree86 v4 Server Module: nv
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #15 (PCI bridge)

144: udi = ‘/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_649’
pci.device_class = 3 (0x3)
info.subsystem = ‘pci’
pci.device_subclass = 0 (0x0)
info.product = ‘GeForce 9600M GT’
pci.device_protocol = 0 (0x0)
info.udi = ‘/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_649’
pci.vendor = ‘nVidia Corporation’
linux.sysfs_path = ‘/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0’
info.vendor = ‘nVidia Corporation’
info.parent = ‘/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2a41’
pci.product = ‘GeForce 9600M GT’
pci.linux.sysfs_path = ‘/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0’
pci.subsys_vendor = ‘Hewlett-Packard Company’
pci.product_id = 1609 (0x649)
linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2)
pci.vendor_id = 4318 (0x10de)
linux.subsystem = ‘pci’
pci.subsys_product_id = 13840 (0x3610)
pci.subsys_vendor_id = 4156 (0x103c)
Also the Nvidia update keeps wanting to un install alsa and I am not sure why?
Thanks
wayne

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rotfl! I have it final… its order of operations when working with alsa and the newest Nvidia drivers. first I updated alsa and got the sound working. Then I updated Nvidia which uninstalled alsa. so no sound but pretty display. then I tried to put alsa back on and it removed part of Nvidia so I would only get a DBus error when starting the x server. so this totally pissed me off so I went into YAST and removed all nvidia and alsa packets. I restarted the computer and the x server started to work in a basic fashion. I then updated Nvidia and restarted the computer. once the graphics were fixed I installed alsa and the sound is not 100% the driver still crashes every now and then but I can live with that. Thank you so much for the help
Wayne

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Alsa 1.0.20 has a bunch of fixes for the HDX series, so if you don’t have it already, I highly recommend it.

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supdoc, if you try updating your alsa, note there is guidance here: Alsa-update - openSUSE

Note you must send the correct six zypper commands, being certain to select the one’s relevant to your openSUSE version and also relevant to your kernel version.