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xserver-xorg-video-nv package

Incorrect resolution Hardy beta nvidia & 1680x1050 LCD

Bug #217694 reported by NEUR0M4NCER on 2008-04-15

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	xserver-xorg-video-nv (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xorg

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 AMD64 on Core2Duo with all updates (as of 15/04/08 12.50pm).

Nvidia XFX 8500GT & Emprex 22" LCD.

Highest resolution available is 1280x1024 - should be 1680x1050. Trying to enable Compiz/Desktop Effects says nVidia driver is not loaded. Trying to enable driver in System>Administration>Hardware Drivers prompts a restart of the system, which brings up screens & graphics chooser @ 640x480, choosing correct driver/resolution results in either 'Failure, check hardware', or an 'Out of Range' message from my monitor, and needing to power down the PC & reboot.

nvidia-settings gives me this: 'You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.' However, running nvidia-xconfig and re-booting gives the same 640x480 Screens & Graphics chooser. The only way to get (temporarily acceptable) 1280x1024 is to start in safe mode and 'Try to automatically fix X'.

Probably a very similar issue to MANY others i've seen here and in the Ubuntu Hardy Heron Dev forums, but most places say that to report the issue is the best thing to do, to get a fix for it, so here it is. Any further info needed, please ask.

p.s. Opened this in the xorg section, as it seemed the most appropriate, although I may be wrong - if so, feel free to move this to the right place - thanks.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote on 2008-04-17:

Please switch to 'nv' driver, and attach the Xorg.0.log from your system, and the output of 'xrandr -q'. Sounds like your monitor (never heard of Emprex before :) does not provide the necessary data so the driver can't probe proper settings.

Changed in xorg:
status:	New → Incomplete

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NEUR0M4NCER (samricketts) wrote on 2008-04-18:

Xorg.0.log Edit (56.2 KiB, text/plain)

... nv gives me full 1680x1050 resolution - does that mean that there's an issue with nVidia's driver/its detection of my hardware? If that's the case, let me know, and i'll start hassling the nvidia forums, and leave you be ;)

As requested:

$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1680
VGA1 connected 1680x1050+0+0 473mm x 296mm
   1680x1050 59.9*+ 60.0
   1400x1050 74.9
   1280x1024 75.0
   1440x900 75.0 59.9
   1152x864 75.0 74.8
   1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
   832x624 74.6
   800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
   640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0
   720x400 70.1
VGA2 disconnected
DVI1 disconnected

and Xorg.0.log attached, in-case you need them.

Thanks for your help so far!

p.s. Emprex is a super-cheap brand available from Comet in the UK - hence the possible wrong setting reports... full spec here: http://www.emprex.com/02_products_02.php?id=185 if you need them. Thanks again.

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NEUR0M4NCER (samricketts) wrote on 2008-04-18:

To complicate things further, there is now no option to enable *any* restricted driver in Hardware Manager, although nv still seems to work fine.

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NEUR0M4NCER (samricketts) wrote on 2008-04-22:

Here's the output of hwinfo - it seems pertinent:

28: PCI 300.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
  [Created at pci.296]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_421
  Unique ID: svHJ.bUYifF9pfY0
  Parent ID: vSkL.aEVL1N5Zl53
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:03:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "XFX Pine GeForce 8500 GT"
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x0421 "GeForce 8500 GT"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1682 "XFX Pine Group Inc."
  SubDevice: pci 0x2307
  Revision: 0xa1
  Memory Range: 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (rw,prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xfa000000-0xfbffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0xec00-0xec7f (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xfeae0000-0xfeafffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 11 (no events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000421sv00001682sd00002307bc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    XFree86 v4 Server Module: nv
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #14 (PCI bridge)

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote on 2008-04-29:

Ok, then attach the logfile you get with nvidia..

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-nv:
status:	Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Aragorn Athelas Bilbo (aragornzonaopen) wrote on 2008-05-08:

I have exactly the same problem. I have 19" WIDE monitor MAG INNOVISION and 7300GT NVIDIA. I can't use 3D aceleration (same error) and I can't use 1440x900 resolution. And not detect external TV. I'm try install beta drivers from NVIDIA webpage, but don't work. If need something information for help to solve the problem. Request it to me. Thanks a lot.

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Michael Nagel (nailor) wrote on 2008-11-12:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!