On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 12:19 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
On Saturday 29 November 2008 16:31:29 Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 03:43:37AM -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> > I'm trying to instal Fedora10 on my new laptop but I've run into a few
> > issues.
> >
> > It's a Dell Precision M6400 - I'm running KDE
> >
> > I have 2 issues:
> >
> > 1) I cannot get the full screen resolution
> > I can go to administration --> display and under the 'Hardwae' tab I
can
> > configure the display as a generic or as a Dell 1920x1200 but no matter
> > what I choose the 'Settings' tab only lets me choose a max of
1400x1050
>
> You may need to generate an xorg.conf file. I prefer to install the
> 'system-config-display' package, and then as root run
> 'system-config-display --reconfig'. Select your proper monitor from
> the list. When you're done, edit the 'Modes' line in the
"Screen"
> section to include a mode for your actual resolution.
>
> > 2) system notification sound works, and rhythmbox sound works but no
> > other sound / players work such as amaok or Kaffiene
>
> I don't have any real KDE skills so I can't help you with this one.
> Anyone else?
I installed the nvidia driver like this:
1) I installed the rpmfusion repos
2) I did a yum install kmod-nvidia
3) I ran nvidia-xconfig (to generate my xorg.conf file)
Still no luck. - my current xorg.conf file is below
I also tried running system-config-display --reconfig with no change in
results.
I tried adding a Modes section to the Screen section like this:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1200"
EndSubSection
EndSection
but still no luck. If it matters, I installed CentOS and it immediately (even
without installing the nvidia drivers) gave me 1920x1200 - not sure if this is
helpful or not but it confirms that the card actually will run 1920x1200
Anyone have any other Ideas?
Thanks in advance...
# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Tue Nov 4 17:18:57
PST 2008
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
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 "nvidia"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Somebody recently mentioned cvt to create a Modeline
Don't know if it might help to put one in
This was just a note to myself about it
Use cvt !!
cvt 1280 1024 75
# 1280x1024 74.90 Hz (CVT 1.31M4) hsync: 80.30 kHz; pclk: 138.75 MHz
Modeline "1280x1024_75.00" 138.75 1280 1368 1504 1728 1024 1027 1034 1072
-hsync +vsync
John