Trouble with nVidia driver and resolution

DiskCrasher · October 15, 2009, 3:43am

I’ve got an HP Pavilion dv6000 series with an nVidia GeForce 8400M GS graphics card. Everything is working fine with one exception: I can move my mouse off the screen to the left and it appears that the OS thinks I’m using two monitors (which I have done in the past). Some of my desktop icons aren’t visible either. I’m sure there’s a setting somewhere that controls this. Below is my xorg.conf file:

nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings

nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Tue Nov 4 17:19:39 PST 2008

/…/

SaX generated X11 config file

Created on: 2008-12-20T15:21:49-0800.

Version: 8.1

Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005

Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>

Automatically generated by [SaX2] (8.1)

PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
Screen 0 “Screen0” 0 0
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
InputDevice “Mouse[3]” “SendCoreEvents”
EndSection

Section “Files”
InputDevices “/dev/gpmdata”
InputDevices “/dev/input/mice”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/local”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/URW”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Speedo”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/PEX”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/kwintv”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/truetype”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/CID”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/xtest”
FontPath “/opt/kde3/share/fonts”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “dri”
Load “dbe”
Load “freetype”
Load “extmod”
Load “glx”
EndSection

Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AllowMouseOpenFail” “on”
Option “ZapWarning” “on”
Option “Xinerama” “0”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Keyboard[0]”
Driver “kbd”
Option “Protocol” “Standard”
Option “XkbLayout” “us”
Option “XkbModel” “microsoftpro”
Option “XkbRules” “xfree86”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Mouse[1]”
Driver “mouse”
Option “Buttons” “7”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Name” “Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical”
Option “Protocol” “explorerps/2”
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Mouse[3]”
Driver “synaptics”
Option “Buttons” “5”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “on”
Option “HorizScrollDelta” “0”
Option “InputFashion” “Mouse”
Option “Name” “Synaptics;Touchpad”
Option “Protocol” “explorerps/2”
Option “SHMConfig” “on”
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection

Section “Modes”
Identifier “Modes[0]”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor[0]”
VendorName “–> LCD”
ModelName “800X600@60HZ”
UseModes “Modes[0]”
HorizSync 30.0 - 38.0
VertRefresh 30.0 - 61.0
Option “CalcAlgorithm” “XServerPool”
Option “DPMS”
Option “PreferredMode” “800x600”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor0”
VendorName “Unknown”
ModelName “Chuntex”
HorizSync 30.0 - 95.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Device[0]”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “NVIDIA”
BoardName “GeForce 8400M GS”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Device0”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “NVIDIA Corporation”
BoardName “GeForce 8400M GS”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen[0]”
Device “Device[0]”
Monitor “Monitor[0]”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “800x600”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “800x600”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “800x600”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “800x600”
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section “Screen”

Removed Option “metamodes” “CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP: 1280x800 +1600+0”

Identifier     "Screen0"
Device         "Device0"
Monitor        "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth    24
Option         "TwinView" "1"
Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option         "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +0+0, DFP: 1280x800 +1280+0"
SubSection     "Display"
    Depth       24
EndSubSection

EndSection

caf4926 · October 15, 2009, 5:02am

If you go to Yast - Hardware - Graphics and Monitor

Can you use the setup in there?

DiskCrasher · October 15, 2009, 5:36am

First I get an error message: “Cannot Deactivate All Displays. At least one display must be active.” Hitting OK, the X11 config screen comes up but only one display is shown and Dual Head Mode is not checked (and is also disabled).

caf4926 · October 15, 2009, 5:40am

Make sure you have disabled auto login
Disable Auto-Login - openSUSE Forums

Logout and from the lower left corner choose a console login.
Login with your username and password
Now switch to su
enter root password.

Do this:

sax2 -r

reboot

DiskCrasher · October 16, 2009, 3:29am

That fixed it, thanks!

caf4926 · October 16, 2009, 4:39am

Happy that sorted it for you;)