X problems

[Fred Roller]

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 05:55 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >> -- 
> >>
> >> 	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
> 
> 

What do your logs have in them?