F12 nouveau problem?

[Joachim Backes]

Dear community,

having a *little* problem with nouveau and NVIDIA FX5200 (princeton 
display, 1280x1024): Under F12, it works OK - but when rebooting to 
WinXP, the screen is not centered, but shifted a little bit to the left 
(a small black vertical bar remains rightside). After auto tuning the 
display in WinXP, and after  rebooting to F12, there is the inverse 
effect (small black vertical bar on the left side).

By running my screen with kmod-nvidia-173xx from rpmfusion, I get rid 
from these problems.

Any hints?

Kind regards

[Andreas M. Kirchwitz]

Joachim Backes  wrote:
> having a *little* problem with nouveau and NVIDIA FX5200 (princeton 
> display, 1280x1024): Under F12, it works OK - but when rebooting to 
> WinXP, the screen is not centered, but shifted a little bit to the left 
> (a small black vertical bar remains rightside). After auto tuning the 
> display in WinXP, and after  rebooting to F12, there is the inverse 
> effect (small black vertical bar on the left side).

Same here. The drivers from Nvidia and from the open source community
use slightly different settings for screen position. Yes, it's annoying.
I'm sure that could be changed with ModeLines in xorg.conf, but that
wouldn't help for KMS. Maybe the developers of the open source drivers
only use DVI and don't care, or they don't use Windows and never
noticed the problem.
> By running my screen with kmod-nvidia-173xx from rpmfusion, I get rid 
> from these problems.

Sure, then you use Nvidia's driver with both operating systems.
They use the same settings for screen position of course.

Nvidia's downloadable driver for Windows allows you to shift the
screen. That's the easiest solution of you use this drivers.
If you use the Nvidia driver that comes with Windows then I don't
know if it's possible to modify the screen position.

Greetings, Andreas

[Joachim Backes]

On 02/02/2010 07:16 PM, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:
> Joachim Backes  wrote:
> > having a *little* problem with nouveau and NVIDIA FX5200 (princeton
> >  display, 1280x1024): Under F12, it works OK - but when rebooting to
> >  WinXP, the screen is not centered, but shifted a little bit to the left
> >  (a small black vertical bar remains rightside). After auto tuning the
> >  display in WinXP, and after  rebooting to F12, there is the inverse
> >  effect (small black vertical bar on the left side).
>
> Same here. The drivers from Nvidia and from the open source community
> use slightly different settings for screen position. Yes, it's annoying.
> I'm sure that could be changed with ModeLines in xorg.conf, but that
> wouldn't help for KMS. Maybe the developers of the open source drivers
> only use DVI and don't care, or they don't use Windows and never
> noticed the problem.
> > By running my screen with kmod-nvidia-173xx from rpmfusion, I get rid
> >  from these problems.
>
> Sure, then you use Nvidia's driver with both operating systems.
> They use the same settings for screen position of course.
>
> Nvidia's downloadable driver for Windows allows you to shift the
> screen. That's the easiest solution of you use this drivers.

Hi Andreas,

thx for this hint: I'll install the most recent Nvidia driver in XP
and check that together with the F12 nouveau driver.

Regards

Joachim Backes
> If you use the Nvidia driver that comes with Windows then I don't
> know if it's possible to modify the screen position.
>
> Greetings, Andreas

[solved] Re: F12 nouveau problem?

[Joachim Backes]

On 02/03/2010 07:38 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 02/02/2010 07:16 PM, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:
> > Joachim Backes   wrote:
> > > having a *little* problem with nouveau and NVIDIA FX5200 (princeton
> > >   display, 1280x1024): Under F12, it works OK - but when rebooting to
> > >   WinXP, the screen is not centered, but shifted a little bit to the left
> > >   (a small black vertical bar remains rightside). After auto tuning the
> > >   display in WinXP, and after  rebooting to F12, there is the inverse
> > >   effect (small black vertical bar on the left side).
> >
> > Same here. The drivers from Nvidia and from the open source community
> > use slightly different settings for screen position. Yes, it's annoying.
> > I'm sure that could be changed with ModeLines in xorg.conf, but that
> > wouldn't help for KMS. Maybe the developers of the open source drivers
> > only use DVI and don't care, or they don't use Windows and never
> > noticed the problem.
> > > By running my screen with kmod-nvidia-173xx from rpmfusion, I get rid
> > >   from these problems.
> >
> > Sure, then you use Nvidia's driver with both operating systems.
> > They use the same settings for screen position of course.
> >
> > Nvidia's downloadable driver for Windows allows you to shift the
> > screen. That's the easiest solution of you use this drivers.
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> thx for this hint: I'll install the most recent Nvidia driver in XP
> and check that together with the F12 nouveau driver.
>
> Regards
>
> Joachim Backes
> > If you use the Nvidia driver that comes with Windows then I don't
> > know if it's possible to modify the screen position.
> >
> > Greetings, Andreas

Hi Andreas,

After installing 175.16_geforce_winxp_32bit_international_whql.exe I got 
rid of the screen position problem (horizontal shift OK). F12 and XP 
screen positions now are the same.

Regards