Installed nvidia driver, now everything is gigantic
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Installed nvidia driver, now everything is gigantic
Hi,
I followed this guy's http://www.linuxloader.com/modules.p...howpage&pid=25 instructions on installing the Nvidia driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8756-pkg1.run) in Mandriva 2006. Everything seemed to be going fine until I did a startx. X came up and everything is gigantic. My icons are the size of tangerines. So I went to the display settings to change the resolution but it reads 1024 x 768 which is what I normally use but it looks more like 160 X 42 or something. I can tell that the Nvidia driver is installed because when I reboot I get the Nvidia splash screen but then I still get this gigantic resolution. Any help, thanks.
# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]
ModeLine "1400x1050_50" 99.88 1400 1480 1624 1848 1050 1051 1054 1081 -HSync +Vsync
EndSection
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Wed Mar 29 14:43:26 PST 2006
# File generated by XFdrake.
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection
# allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
Option "allowmouseopenfail"
EndSection
there is a setting for virtual display in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
anyway, make sure both the display size and the virtual screen size are the same.
I'm having this same issue >< Looking at the xorg.conf, all of my Virtual resolutions are the same. Glenn mentions that one has to make the actual display size match the virtual screen size... but I see no option here to change the actual display size.
I'm not sure if it means anything but one thing the howto says is this:
"In order to ease the install of the new driver we will have to remove the old driver along with the dkms modules. So open the "Remove Software" tool and do a search for Nvidia."
I did that but the remove tool didn't find any of those
things so I went ahead with installing the driver
Hi,
If you can get to the icon of the little TV screen just by the speaker icon near the clock on the bottom right of your screen then you can click on it and select 1024x768 screen resolution like others have suggested..This may be the easy GUI way of setting your resolution..
Goodluck,
jolphil
I set all the virtual display sizes to 1024x768 but it's still doing the same thing. Normally I would just re-install the whole sysyem but I spent a lot of time getting multimedia to work, etc. If anyone knows how to uninstall the Nvidia driver let me know. I searched for "uninstall nvidia driver" but didn't come up with much. Thanks.
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