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FS#9023 - nvidia-settings freezes xorg when changing refresh rate

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Thiago A. Silva (thiagoaraujos) - Thursday, 27 December 2007, 18:44 GMT
Last edited by Greg (dolby) - Saturday, 17 May 2008, 16:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

nvidia-settings app freezes xorg, and I can only move the mouse and do anything. Keys such as ctrl+alt+backspace or ctrl+alt+fX don't work and I'm obliged to manually reset my machine.

GNOME's resolution app tells me my LCD monitor's refreshing rate runs at 50 hz... when I open up nvidia-settings to change this setting to 60 hz (the correct value) the above happens.

I'm almost sure that it's already running at 60 hz, but GNOME insists to show 50 hz... or I would be blind right now.

I used to do exactly the same in gentoo and it didn't freeze. Afterwards, looking at GNOME's resolution settings, refreshing would change to 55 hz (not 60hz...)

monitor: LG L17660TQ
card: GeForce FX 5200

Additional info:
* package version(s)

nvidia-settings version 1.0

* config and/or log files etc.

Steps to reproduce:

1. open up nvidia-settings
2. go to X Server Display Configuration
3. change refresh from AUTO to 60 hz
4. click apply (screen gets black a second, then freezes in the previous screen)
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Closed by  Greg (dolby)
Saturday, 17 May 2008, 16:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Thiago A. Silva (thiagoaraujos) - Thursday, 27 December 2007, 22:00 GMT
I forgot to tell I was running compiz-fusion under gnome... haven't tested without it
Comment by Matthias Dienstbier (fs4000) - Friday, 04 January 2008, 00:47 GMT
Changing refresh rate works for me.
But my KDE also displays 50Hz although I use 85Hz. It's a strange behaviour of the nvidia driver.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 08 January 2008, 02:25 GMT
About refresh rates: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Why_is_the_refresh_rate_not_reported_correctly_by_utilities_that_use_the_XRandR_X_extension_.28e.g..2C_the_GNOME_.22Screen_Resolution_Preferences.22_panel.2C_.60xrandr_-q.60.2C_etc.29.3F
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 08 January 2008, 02:27 GMT
I'm not sure about freezes, never got them even with compiz-fusion.
@Thomas: I guess this may be an upstream bug, anyway we cannot do much about it, so feel free to close it.

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