Monday, April 23, 2007

nVIDIA binary driver freq fix (Feisty)


When some people switch to the nVIDIA binary driver ("nvidia" as opposed to "nv"), they can no longer access their desktop. For example, my old BenQ FP731 LCD goes black&blank and displays "Out of range".

Here is the fix:

#vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Driver "nvidia"
Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "UseEdid" "False"
#Option "UseEdidDpi" "False"
#Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
EndSection

The "UseEdidDpi" and "DPI" options can be used to set the DPI to 96. These settings are specific to nVIDIA gfx chips but there is another way to set a sane DPI...

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