[SOLVED] Video drivers...STILL???

mturg · 07-22-2020, 06:57 PM

Hello. Still trying to ditch windoze once and for all, I installed Ubuntu when it came out. Couldn't adjust/scale my desktop to read words. No nvidea drivers available...Lately I tried Mint cinnamon 20, same thing?????????? no scaling settings available because of my nvidia card...Until this issue is resolved, myself and I suspect MANY other nvidia card users will remain turned off of this wonderful operating system....Gaming has come a long way finally for linux, now this final hurdle to over come.....please be soon for a fix...

frankbell · 07-22-2020, 07:08 PM

Are you using Nvidia drivers or Nouveau drivers?

ondoho · 07-23-2020, 02:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mturg

Hello. Still trying to ditch windoze once and for all, I installed Ubuntu when it came out. Couldn't adjust/scale my desktop to read words. No nvidea drivers available...Lately I tried Mint cinnamon 20, same thing?????????? no scaling settings available because of my nvidia card...Until this issue is resolved, myself and I suspect MANY other nvidia card users will remain turned off of this wonderful operating system....Gaming has come a long way finally for linux, now this final hurdle to over come.....please be soon for a fix...

Yes, STILL. You can blame GPU manufacturers that STILL refuse to co-operate with Linux and don't opensource their code.
OTOH, this sounds like your hardware is older, probably STILL the same hardware you had problems with the last time you tried?
If it has an old Nvidia card, it can be that development soared past it and your card will never get better support anymore. Again, you can blame Nvidia for this.

edit:
On a more constructive note, you might want to provide the output of

Code:

uname -rmv
lspci -k

and we can take it from there.

sevendogsbsd · 07-23-2020, 09:32 AM

The one reason I switched to AMD - far more open source friendly. The caveat is they are not quite on par with Nvidia in terms of performance, but in all honesty I can't tell the difference. I am not a hard core gamer though and don't need nor want latest and greatest.

mturg · 07-26-2020, 07:41 AM

Code:

System:    Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.6 
           wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx serial: <filter> 
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1602 date: 02/25/2013 
CPU:       Topology: 8-Core model: AMD FX-8350 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Bulldozer 
           L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 64215 
           Speed: 4196 MHz min/max: 1400/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 4187 2: 4138 3: 1398 
           4: 1404 5: 1404 6: 1404 7: 1404 8: 1390 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 950] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 440.95.01 
           bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1402 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: nvidia 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 950/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.95.01 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:14.2 chip ID: 1002:4383 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GM206 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0fba 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-42-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: ASUSTeK P8 series driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
           chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 25.99 GiB (2.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LX015-1U7172 size: 931.51 GiB 
           speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 364.79 GiB used: 25.96 GiB (7.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
USB:       Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 5 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 5 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 5 rev: 1.1 chip ID: 1d6b:0001 
           Hub: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 5 rev: 1.1 chip ID: 1d6b:0001 
           Hub: 5-5:2 info: Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro ports: 3 rev: 1.1 chip ID: 045e:001c 
           Device-1: 5-5.1:3 info: Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro type: Keyboard,HID 
           driver: hid-generic,usbhid rev: 1.1 chip ID: 045e:002b 
           Device-2: 5-5.3:4 info: Sunplus Innovation Optical Mouse type: Mouse 
           driver: hid-generic,usbhid rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1bcf:0005 
           Hub: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 chip ID: 1d6b:0001 
           Hub: 7-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 1.1 chip ID: 1d6b:0001 
           Hub: 8-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 9-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
           Hub: 10-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 11-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 31.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 31 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0% 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
           1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com ulyana main upstream import backport
           2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
           3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
           6: deb http: //archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:      Processes: 241 Uptime: 2m Memory: 15.54 GiB used: 817.9 MiB (5.1%) Init: systemd v: 245 
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Client: Unknown python3.8 client inxi: 3.0.38

ondoho · 07-26-2020, 01:17 PM

Not a single word, just inxi output?
I can already see we're going to have a lot of fun together.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mturg

Code:

Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 950] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 440.95.01 
           bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1402 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: nvidia 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 950/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.95.01 
           direct render: Yes

I see nothing untoward here.

Now please specify the problem.
Isn't 1920x1080~60Hz the proper resolution?

mturg · 07-26-2020, 02:11 PM

I had a msg typed up but when I hit reply AFTER I typed it, I came here to a blank msg box lol. I wasn't happy. Anyway. I reinstalled mint dual boot win10. Went very well indeed, smooth install. During setup after installed, I selected nvidia drivers and installed them. Prior to install a msg came up stating that without these drivers many functions of my nvidia 950 wouldn't work but my desktop looked perfect in every way sizing/scale and ease of reading, just what I want to be able to read things on my 60inch TV. Now after install (drivers) I cannot scale my desktop to be able to read it. Also It took me forever to find out how to find and then post my info here....Also I had a hell of a time trying to log into this site through linux and not win10. My password was generated automatically using a win10 program. anyway I'm here now and surely appreciate your help and kindness....thanks

KGIII · 07-26-2020, 10:22 PM

In the live Mint environment, you were using the 'nouveau' driver (at least this was true the last time I checked out Mint).

If it were me, I'd change out the proprietary driver to the nouveau driver to see if it's better.

mrmazda · 07-27-2020, 01:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KGIII

I'd change out the proprietary driver to the nouveau driver to see if it's better.

I'd try the upstream default modesetting DDX too. This primer discusses how to try.

ondoho · 07-27-2020, 05:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mturg

Now after install (drivers) I cannot scale my desktop to be able to read it.

Sorry but I do not understand this.
Are you saying you want to lower your desktop's resolution, and don't have the same choices you had before?
Output of

Code:

xrandr

please.

mturg · 07-29-2020, 07:18 PM

mike@mike-desktop:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
DVI-I-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1600mm x 900mm
1920x1080 60.00*+
1360x768 60.02
1280x1024 60.02
1024x768 60.00
800x600 60.32
640x480 59.94
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
mike@mike-desktop:~$
I had just switched to the open source vid driver but nothing changed for me. Script on desktop wayyyy to small. I want to enlarge everything appearing on my desktop, example; steam, all fonts too small to read. My monitor is my sony 60inch TV

mturg · 07-29-2020, 07:23 PM

Thanks for responding. Your link "primer" is unaccesible to me.

jkirchner · 07-29-2020, 07:25 PM

Are you still on Mint? There is a scaling option in settings then under hardware the display. User interface scale, hit the dropdown and try those, then the fractional scaling selector above it becomes available

mrmazda · 07-29-2020, 07:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mturg

Your link "primer" is unaccesible to me.

I had pasted the wrong link. It's fixed now.

Please edit your #11 to enclose your command input and output in code tags ( # above the input window).

mturg · 07-29-2020, 08:50 PM

Thanks for fixing link for me. Edit post #11 now or in future? Anyways I;m back in win10 cause now in mint I get a black screen with cursor only "failed to boot cinnamon-session-cinnimon , revert to default? I select yes and I end up with black screen and cursor....