X problems

[Karl F. Larsen]

Fred Roller wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 09:44 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> 	I mounted a pci Nvidia card several months ago in my computer and it
>> was working fine to now. I decided to anchor the card front to the place
>> it should go. Hard to get to because the screw hole is hidden by the
>> power supply.
>>
>> 	I unplugged the card and took screws off the back side and was able to
>> put the screw in with the card out of the socket, and then put the card
>> into the socket. It appears to be working but my system can not get the
>> proper image size now.
>>
>> 	If I come up normal I get a 800x600 display which is not right of
>> course. I did check the system-Admin-Hardware Drivers and the Nvidia
>> driver was off. I clicked it to on and had to reboot. Checked and it was
>> off again. Did this dance many times. It appears there is a problem in
>> this area.
>>
>> 	If I come up in the broken version of this Hardy and wait for the
>> ability to check xsetup I do so but it fixes nothing.
>>
>>
>> 	Any ideas? I do get a good image so I think the Nvidia pci card is
>> working. But I can't get the right image size.
>>
>> Karl
>>
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>>
>> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>> 	Linux User
>> 	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
>>         Key ID = 3951B48D
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Karl, if you have a spare video card, swap it out to make sure you
> didn't damage something during the install.  Sounds like you had to shoe
> horn the thing in and may have damaged it in some way.  Let's be sure
> the hardware is good to go first.
>   
    I do have the video card that is on the mother board. I removed the
pci card and worked with that video device and had exactly the same
image size problem. This seems to tell me the problem is software, not
hardware.

73 Karl