[SOLVED] Just installed the Nvidia driver and now it won't remember my settings...

Lufbery · 03-15-2010, 12:37 PM

Hi all,

I finally got around to installing the Nvidia driver (gotten from Slackbuilds.org).

Overall, I'm pretty happy with it, but it wants to default to 1280x1024 resolution and we prefer 1024x768 on our old 17" CRT monitor.

No matter what I do, though, it starts up in 1280x1024. We start X from runlevel 3 and go into KDE 4.3.1.

It is not difficult to change to 1024x768 using the Nvidia configuration utility, but then the menu fonts are HUGE -- especially in Thunderbird and Firefox.

My xorg.conf is below. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

-Drew

xorg.conf:

Code:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Tue Oct 20 21:26:01 PDT 2009

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Tue Oct 20 21:25:04 PDT 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath        "/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath        "/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath        "/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath        "/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
    FontPath        "/usr/lib64/X11/fonts/TTF/"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "HP M70 17in"
    VendorName     "Hewlett Packard"
    ModelName      "HP HWPD5259A"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 70.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 120.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "HP HWPD5259A"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 70.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 120.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0; 1024x768_75 +0+0"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    16
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0; 1024x768_85 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
    EndSubSection
EndSection

JokerBoy · 03-15-2010, 12:48 PM

have you trid something like this?

DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768_85.00"
EndSubSection

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-15-2010, 01:02 PM

Remove the 'nvidia-auto select +0+0;', and leave the others.

Lufbery · 03-15-2010, 03:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

Remove the 'nvidia-auto select +0+0;', and leave the others.

That did it. Thanks!