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