Kevin Kempter wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2008 22:28:33 Lonni J Friedman wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Kevin Kempter <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > wrote: > >>> Hi All; >>> >>> I've installed Fedora 10 on a new laptop with an Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M >>> graphics card. The card will do 1920x1200 resolution however the >>> kmod-nvidia driver from rpmfusion doesnt work properly (at least I >>> suspect the kmod-nvidia driver to be the issue - however I could be >>> wrong) >>> >>> Once installed all the queries I can run such as xrand and >>> nvidia-settings specify that I'm running at 1920x1200 however I know >>> that's not true - I recently had CentOS installed and it (without the >>> kmod-nvidia driver) gave me true 1920x1200 and the difference is huge. >>> >>> So, my hunch is that I'm slightly ahead of the curve per hardware and >>> soon enough a driver that works with my video card will come along. >>> Meanwhile I've poked around at the nvidia site for linux drivers and I >>> find that there is support for the FX 3700, but not the FX 3700M. >>> >>> Does anyone know what the difference might be between the FX 3700 and the >>> FX 3700 M (Mobile)? I wonder if it would be wise to download and install >>> the FX 3700 driver and see if it works ? >>> >> 177.82 should work fine. >> >> >> >> -- >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx >> LlamaLand https://netllama.linux-sxs.org >> > > > I installed the FX 3700 driver (177.82) and I now have a true 1920x1200 > desktop - it looks great ! > > However now I lost all my GL screensavers (none of 'em work) and no desktop > effects. Here's the new xorg.conf (below). > > Anyone have any thoughts ? > > Note: I tried changing "vesa" in the Device section to "nvidia" and I get the > old resolution again. > > Thanks in advance... > Does "glxinfo | grep rendering" say "direct rendering: Yes"? I don't use the repo'd nVidia drivers. I get mine directly from nvidia.com and I did have a case once where I had to run their installer twice in a row to get direct rendering Yes. Also, check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log to make sure you see lines similar to ... (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 173.14.05 Mon May 19 00:30:52 PDT 2008 (II) Loading extension GLX > > # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf > # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "single head configuration" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > EndSection > > Section "Files" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" > EndSection > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AIGLX" "on" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > > # generated from default > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > > # keyboard added by rhpxl > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105+inet" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > ModelName "LCD Panel 1920x1200" > HorizSync 31.5 - 74.5 > VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0 > Option "dpms" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "vesa" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "Extensions" > Option "Composite" "Enable" > EndSection > > > > > -- Where's my SOCIAL WORKER? Mei-Mei.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx
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