nVidia widescreen no longer working.

noiesmo noiesmo at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 07:25:28 GMT 2008


Hi Simon

The first thing I noticed with your xorg.conf is your have two Section 
Screen and the last one sets it to 640x480

I'd comment it out and only leave one section Screen in your xorg.conf

hope this helps


Simon wrote:
> I hope there is someone here who can help with this annoying issue.
>
> For whatever reason, when I booted into Ubuntu Gutsy this morning my 
> graphics driver and sound driver were no longer recognised.  I hadn't 
> performed an update, although this is now irrelevant.  I was forced to 
> enter into a 'low resolution'  mode of 640x800.  I updated my kernel 
> headers via synaptic which allowed the audio to function again and the 
> nVidia driver (restricted drivers) to load.  However, now I can no 
> longer enable widescreen resolutions.
>
> If I enter System -> Administration -> Screens and Graphics and select 
> the 'Widescreen' option I just receive a message saying 'All Users Must 
> Log Off For The Changes To Take Effect'.  If I do log off then I just 
> get a 640x800 resolution again.
>
> I'll paste my xorg.conf file below in the hope that someone can 
> recommend some changes.  Also, what's with all of the xorg.conf files?  
> I've never had so many before!  I've got xorg.conf through to 
> xorg.conf.18 a xorg.conf.backup and a few xorg.conf.failsafe files.  
> Below is just xorg.conf.
>
> By the way, my notebook is a Compaq Presario V3118AU.  The screen 
> resolution is (should be) 1280x800.  The product specs can be seen on 
> HP's website -> 
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?lc=en&cc=au&dlc=en&product=3252144&lang=en&
>
> # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
> # nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister at builder26)  Wed Sep 12 
> 14:29:17 PDT 2007
>
> # xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
> #
> # This file was generated by failsafeDexconf, using
> # values from the debconf database and some overrides to use vesa mode.
> #
> # You should use dexconf or another such tool for creating a "real" 
> xorg.conf
> # For example:
> #   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier    "Default Layout"
>   screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0
>     Inputdevice    "Generic Keyboard"
>     Inputdevice    "Configured Mouse"
>     Inputdevice    "Synaptics Touchpad"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>     Load        "glx"
>     Load        "v4l"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier    "Generic Keyboard"
>     Driver        "kbd"
>     Option        "CoreKeyboard"
>     Option        "XkbRules"    "xorg"
>     Option        "XkbModel"    "pc105"
>     Option        "XkbLayout"    "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
>     Driver        "mouse"
>     Option        "CorePointer"
>     Option        "Device"    "/dev/input/mice"
>     Option        "Protocol"    "ImPS/2"
>     Option        "ZAxisMapping"    "4 5"
>     Option        "Emulate3Buttons"    "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier    "Synaptics Touchpad"
>     Driver        "synaptics"
>     Option        "SendCoreEvents"    "true"
>     Option        "Device"    "/dev/psaux"
>     Option        "Protocol"    "auto-dev"
>     Option        "HorizScrollDelta"    "0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier    "Failsafe Monitor"
>     Vendorname    "Generic LCD Display"
>     Modelname    "LCD Panel 1024x768"
>     Horizsync    31.5-48.0
>     Vertrefresh    56.0 - 65.0
>   modeline  "800x600 at 56" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync
>   modeline  "800x600 at 60" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
>   modeline  "1280x768 at 60" 80.14 1280 1344 1480 1680 768 769 772 795 
> -hsync +vsync
>   modeline  "1280x720 at 60" 74.48 1280 1336 1472 1664 720 721 724 746 
> -hsync +vsync
>     Gamma    1.0
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier    "monitor1"
>     Vendorname    "Plug 'n' Play"
>     Modelname    "Plug 'n' Play"
>   modeline  "640x480 at 60" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -vsync -hsync
>     Gamma    1.0
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier    "Failsafe Device"
>     Boardname    "vesa"
>     Busid        "PCI:0:5:0"
>     Driver        "nvidia"
>     Screen    0
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier    "device1"
>     Boardname    "vesa"
>     Busid        "PCI:0:5:0"
>     Driver        "nvidia"
>     Screen    1
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier    "Default Screen"
>     Device        "Failsafe Device"
>     Monitor        "Failsafe Monitor"
>     Defaultdepth    24
>     Option        "NoLogo"    "True"
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth    24
>         Virtual    1280    768
>         Modes        "1280x720 at 60"    "1280x768 at 60"    "800x600 at 60"    
> "800x600 at 56"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>    
>     #
>     Identifier    "screen1"
>     Device        "device1"
>     Monitor        "monitor1"
>     Defaultdepth    24
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth    24
>         Modes        "640x480 at 60"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> EndSection
>
>   



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