FS#4826 - problem of resolution with dualhead on gnome

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Benoit C (benoitc) - Thursday, 15 June 2006, 14:10 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 16 June 2006, 06:19 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I have problem with screen resolution on Gnome. Fonts are big (even if font size is 10) and can't reduce them, screen refresh is only 50 hz. Screen resolution is better on xfce.

My card: 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT] (rev a2)

Last Kernel from arch : Linux marduk.metavers.net 2.6.16-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 6 08:33:18 UTC 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux


[benoitc@marduk build]$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8762 Mon May 15 13:06:38 PDT 2006
GCC version: gcc version 4.0.3

[benoitc@marduk build]$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status: Enabled
Driver: AGPGART
AGP Rate: 8x
Fast Writes: Enabled
SBA: Enabled

Find enclosed my xorg.conf file



(application/octet-stream)    xorg.conf (5.3 KiB)
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Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Sunday, 15 October 2006, 10:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  was fixed upstream in 2.16.x
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 15 June 2006, 14:25 GMT
AFAIK, the resolution (DPI) reported by X is used in gnome. This can be very misleading on nvidia cards, and especially with dualhead setups. Look in the various forums or wikis how to set the resolution for nvidia cards. To check your resolution, run xdpyinfo, it should return something like this:

[jan@xciton-pc2 ~]$ xdpyinfo | grep resolution
resolution: 96x96 dots per inch
Comment by Benoit C (benoitc) - Thursday, 15 June 2006, 17:18 GMT
what's weird, is that resolution is better on xfce. But I have this resoltion yes.
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Friday, 16 June 2006, 06:40 GMT
click details on fonts, you can set the dpi there
Comment by Benoit C (benoitc) - Friday, 16 June 2006, 13:18 GMT
Ok I set the dpi here and it solve the problem of fonts/ But I still have the problem with refresh rate @ 50 Hz. It was 60Hz before. And it is 60Hz under ubuntu (just tested it) with same config. Mayb a problem with nvidia ?
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Sunday, 01 October 2006, 13:11 GMT
are you using lcd screen ?
Comment by Benoit C (benoitc) - Sunday, 15 October 2006, 10:50 GMT
yes I'm using an LCD with dualhead. Everything seems ok with gnome 2.16 :)

- b

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