Greetings,
I installed the nvidia proprietary drivers with click-install and everything perfect, I have desktop effects working but the problem is that when you open the config. screen settings to make sure everything was really good, I get to screen unknown April.
The maximum resolution is the correct 1440 * 900 for 19 "but the refresh rate by not recognizing the monitor down to 50hz me and gives me the option to 60hz as it was before installing the nvidia drivers.
How can I fix the display settings?
Thank you.
Welcome to the forums !!!
This is one in the category “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”.
I assume you started sax2 and thus created an xorg.conf, the configuration file for X, the graphical display server. The file is no longer needed, but may very well cause conflicts if there.
Since it worked in the first place, I suggest you rename that by logging out, hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1, logging in as the normal user and do:
su -c 'init 3'
su -c 'mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.obsolete'
su -c 'init 5 && exit'
Enter root password when asked for.
After this things should be back to normal.
curiously I get the xorg.conf file How do I fix this?
I was reading the openSUSE Documentation and in the 11.2 release notes they say:
YaST and X.Org Configuration (Keyboard, Mouse, Graphics Board, and Monitor)
In the past, YaST offered an configuration interface for the graphical desktop (X.org) such as keyboard, mouse, graphics board, and monitor. During the installation a suitable xorg.conf was created.
In most cases it is no longer needed because the Xserver is now able to automatically configure the system. If it fails for your system, try the following steps:
- Check whether an old /etc/X11/xorg.conf file exists. If so, move it away and start your desktop again.
- If it still does not work, run sax2 from the command line and execute the configuration procedure.
- To adjust hardware components to your personal needs, start the GNOME desktop control center or Configure Desktop in KDE, and configure your devices such as the mouse or keyboard. The display configuration dialogs also let you configure multiple monitor setups. To configure multiple monitors, in other desktop environments, use xrandr.
For more information, see the Desktop User Guides shipping with openSUSE. They are also available from Documentation - openSUSE
After running sax2 from the console and is again good and the xorg.conf.
Now let me choose between 50 and 55hz but not 60 which would make sense. The only change I made to choose sax2 is 19.0 instead of 18.9 inches which was what I would by default. I pass this configuration file after you run the command sax2 to see that look bad.
/…/
SaX generated X11 config file
Created on: 2010-03-09T19:13:29+0000.
Version: 8.1
Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
Section “Files”
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”
InputDevices “/dev/gpmdata”
InputDevices “/dev/input/mice”
EndSection
Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AllowMouseOpenFail” “on”
Option “ZapWarning” “on”
EndSection
Section “Module”
Load “dri”
Load “dbe”
Load “extmod”
Load “glx”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Driver “kbd” will be disabled unless ‘Option “AutoAddDevices” “off”’
is set in “ServerFlags” section.
Driver “kbd”
Identifier “Keyboard[0]”
Option “Protocol” “Standard”
Option “XkbLayout” “es”
Option “XkbModel” “microsoftpro”
Option “XkbRules” “xfree86”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Driver “mouse” will be disabled unless ‘Option “AutoAddDevices” “off”’
is set in “ServerFlags” section.
Driver “mouse”
Identifier “Mouse[1]”
Option “Buttons” “5”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Name” “Logitech USB Optical Mouse”
Option “Protocol” “explorerps/2”
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection
Section “Monitor”
Option “CalcAlgorithm” “XServerPool”
DisplaySize 409 256
HorizSync 30-83
Identifier “Monitor[0]”
ModelName “LG ELECTRONICS L196WTQ”
Option “DPMS”
Option “PreferredMode” “1440x900”
VendorName “GSM”
VertRefresh 50-75
UseModes “Modes[0]”
EndSection
Section “Modes”
Identifier “Modes[0]”
Modeline “1440x900” 106 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 +hsync -vsync
EndSection
Section “Screen”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “1440x900” “1366x768” “1360x768” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1440x900” “1366x768” “1360x768” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1440x900” “1366x768” “1360x768” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1440x900” “1366x768” “1360x768” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
Device “Device[0]”
Identifier “Screen[0]”
Monitor “Monitor[0]”
EndSection
Section “Device”
BoardName “GeForce 8800 GT”
Driver “nvidia”
Identifier “Device[0]”
VendorName “NVIDIA”
EndSection
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
Option “Clone” “off”
Option “Xinerama” “off”
Screen “Screen[0]”
EndSection
Section “DRI”
Group “video”
Mode 0660
EndSection
Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “on”
EndSection
I have heard that the xorg.conf is not needed in opensuse 11.2.
I’ve configured everything from Applications> System> Settings> Server settings nvidia graphic.
Greetings.
are you using nvidia-settings ? sax2 didn’t work for me after installing nvidia drivers.
(without the quotes)
login as root: “su -”
run “nvidia-settings”
it will most likely detect your monitor. i used it to configure a dual monitor setup - two different monitors with different resolutions. don’t forget to save to xorg.conf