On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 08:10 -0400, Nikhil Fernandes wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 09:16 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 10:01 -0400, Nikhil Fernandes wrote: > > > I just upgraded my kernel to the 2096 kernel, and I had to reinstall the > > > livna drivers. I originally had the 8178 drivers, but now I have the > > > 8756 drivers, and fullscreen OpenGL apps don't take the full screen > > > anymore. For example, when I run enemy territory at resolution of > > > 1024x768, rather than scaling up to fill my 1280x1024 monitor, it runs > > > in 1024x768 area in the bottom left corner of the screen - the rest of > > > the screen is black. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > I don't know, but I noticed the very same thing on a system I just > > installed FC5 on the other day. The game in question was Baldur's Gate > > 2 under Cedega, and instead of the screen changing resolution to match > > the game, the resolution stayed the same and the game displayed in the > > upper right hand corner at 640x480. > > > > The way I worked around this was to match the OpenGL resolution roughly > > to the existing screen resolution. That got things to working right. I > > had to do the same thing to Neverwinter Nights. The problem is tho that > > not every OpenGl game can be run at 1280x1024 on every processor. > > Sometimes you need the resolution downshift to even play at all; so this > > is a problem and I'm not sure what to do except to start reading the > > Nvidia readme.txt for some clues -- > > > > > > http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8756/README/index.html > > > > LX > > > Oops...I forgot to post a [solved] post. What I had to do was make sure > that all the modes I needed were listed in xorg.conf. For some reason, > upgrading the driver seemed to delete the modes from my xorg.conf. > Wither that, or the new driver needs the modes available in xorg.conf > while the old one could resize without it. I'm not an expert, so I have > no clue. I don't know if that will work for you, but give it a shot. > > Nik > Wow Nik, thanks...that may be the problem I have. Thanks for sending your solution! LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Exclusive dedication to necessitious chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders LX a hebetudinous fellow. Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
