Fedora 10 install issues

[Kevin Kempter]

Hi All;

(sorry - I originally posted this in the wrong list by mistake)

I'm trying to instal Fedora10 on my new laptop but I've run into a few issues.

It's a Dell Precision M6400  - I'm running KDE

I have 2 issues:

1) I cannot get the full screen resolution
I can go to administration --> display and under the 'Hardwae' tab I can 
configure the display as a generic or as a Dell 1920x1200 but no matter what 
I choose the 'Settings' tab only lets me choose a max of 1400x1050

2) system notification sound works, and rhythmbox sound works but no other 
sound / players work such as amaok or Kaffiene

Thanks in advance for any help ...

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 03:43:37AM -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> I'm trying to instal Fedora10 on my new laptop but I've run into a few issues.
>
> It's a Dell Precision M6400  - I'm running KDE
>
> I have 2 issues:
> I cannot get the full screen resolution
>
> I can go to administration --> display and under the 'Hardwae' tab I can 
> configure the display as a generic or as a Dell 1920x1200 but no matter what 
> I choose the 'Settings' tab only lets me choose a max of 1400x1050

You may need to generate an xorg.conf file.  I prefer to install the
'system-config-display' package, and then as root run
'system-config-display --reconfig'.  Select your proper monitor from
the list.  When you're done, edit the 'Modes' line in the "Screen"
section to include a mode for your actual resolution.
> system notification sound works, and rhythmbox sound works but no other
>
> sound / players work such as amaok or Kaffiene

I don't have any real KDE skills so I can't help you with this one.
Anyone else?

[Kevin Kempter]

On Saturday 29 November 2008 16:31:29 Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 03:43:37AM -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> > I'm trying to instal Fedora10 on my new laptop but I've run into a few
> > issues.
> >
> > It's a Dell Precision M6400  - I'm running KDE
> >
> > I have 2 issues:
> > I cannot get the full screen resolution
> >
> > I can go to administration --> display and under the 'Hardwae' tab I can
> > configure the display as a generic or as a Dell 1920x1200 but no matter
> > what I choose the 'Settings' tab only lets me choose a max of 1400x1050
>
> You may need to generate an xorg.conf file.  I prefer to install the
> 'system-config-display' package, and then as root run
> 'system-config-display --reconfig'.  Select your proper monitor from
> the list.  When you're done, edit the 'Modes' line in the "Screen"
> section to include a mode for your actual resolution.
> > system notification sound works, and rhythmbox sound works but no
> >
> > other sound / players work such as amaok or Kaffiene
>
> I don't have any real KDE skills so I can't help you with this one.
> Anyone else?

I installed the nvidia driver like this:

1) I installed the rpmfusion repos
2) I did a yum install kmod-nvidia
3) I ran nvidia-xconfig (to generate my xorg.conf file)

Still no luck. - my current xorg.conf file is below

I also tried running system-config-display --reconfig  with no change in 
results.

I tried adding a Modes section to the Screen section like this:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
        Modes "1920x1200"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

but still no luck. If it matters, I installed CentOS and it immediately (even 
without installing the nvidia drivers) gave me 1920x1200 - not sure if this is 
helpful or not but it confirms that the card actually will run 1920x1200

Anyone have any other Ideas?

Thanks in advance...

# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf          
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Tue Nov  4 17:18:57 
PST 2008

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "single head configuration"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0              
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"     
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" 
EndSection

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

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl                                                       
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"                                                  
    Driver         "kbd"                                                        
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"                                      
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"                                             
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    ModelName      "LCD Panel 1920x1200"
    HorizSync       31.5 - 74.5
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 65.0
    Option         "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

[Dr J Austin]

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 12:19 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> On Saturday 29 November 2008 16:31:29 Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 03:43:37AM -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> > > I'm trying to instal Fedora10 on my new laptop but I've run into a few
> > > issues.
> > >
> > > It's a Dell Precision M6400  - I'm running KDE
> > >
> > > I have 2 issues:
> > > I cannot get the full screen resolution
> > >
> > > I can go to administration --> display and under the 'Hardwae' tab I can
> > > configure the display as a generic or as a Dell 1920x1200 but no matter
> > > what I choose the 'Settings' tab only lets me choose a max of 1400x1050
> >
> > You may need to generate an xorg.conf file.  I prefer to install the
> > 'system-config-display' package, and then as root run
> > 'system-config-display --reconfig'.  Select your proper monitor from
> > the list.  When you're done, edit the 'Modes' line in the "Screen"
> > section to include a mode for your actual resolution.
> > > system notification sound works, and rhythmbox sound works but no
> > >
> > > other sound / players work such as amaok or Kaffiene
> >
> > I don't have any real KDE skills so I can't help you with this one.
> > Anyone else?
>
> I installed the nvidia driver like this:
> I installed the rpmfusion repos
> I did a yum install kmod-nvidia
> I ran nvidia-xconfig (to generate my xorg.conf file)
>
> Still no luck. - my current xorg.conf file is below
>
> I also tried running system-config-display --reconfig  with no change in 
> results.
>
> I tried adding a Modes section to the Screen section like this:
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier     "Screen0"
>     Device         "Videocard0"
>     Monitor        "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     SubSection     "Display"
>         Viewport    0 0
>         Depth       24
>         Modes "1920x1200"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> but still no luck. If it matters, I installed CentOS and it immediately (even 
> without installing the nvidia drivers) gave me 1920x1200 - not sure if this is 
> helpful or not but it confirms that the card actually will run 1920x1200
>
> Anyone have any other Ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf          
> # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
> # nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Tue Nov  4 17:18:57 
> PST 2008
>
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier     "single head configuration"
>     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0              
>     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"     
>     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" 
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     # generated from default
>     Identifier     "Mouse0" 
>     Driver         "mouse"  
>     Option         "Protocol" "auto"                                            
>     Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"                                   
>     Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"                                       
>     Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"                                         
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # keyboard added by rhpxl                                                       
>     Identifier     "Keyboard0"                                                  
>     Driver         "kbd"                                                        
>     Option         "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"                                      
>     Option         "XkbLayout" "us"                                             
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier     "Monitor0"
>     ModelName      "LCD Panel 1920x1200"
>     HorizSync       31.5 - 74.5
>     VertRefresh     56.0 - 65.0
>     Option         "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier     "Videocard0"
>     Driver         "nvidia"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier     "Screen0"
>     Device         "Videocard0"
>     Monitor        "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     SubSection     "Display"
>         Viewport    0 0
>         Depth       24
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection

Somebody recently mentioned  cvt to create a Modeline

Don't know if it might help to put one in

This was just a note to myself about it

Use cvt !!

cvt 1280 1024 75

# 1280x1024 74.90 Hz (CVT 1.31M4) hsync: 80.30 kHz; pclk: 138.75 MHz
Modeline "1280x1024_75.00"  138.75  1280 1368 1504 1728  1024 1027 1034 1072 -hsync +vsync

John

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 01.12.2008 20:19, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> On Saturday 29 November 2008 16:31:29 Paul W. Frields wrote:
> [...]
> I installed the nvidia driver like this:
> I installed the rpmfusion repos
> I did a yum install kmod-nvidia

Here everything would have worked.
> I ran nvidia-xconfig (to generate my xorg.conf file)

Here you broke it. But that is not your fault, because it's a bad idea 
to ship a tool (to make it worse: a tool that is needed according to 
many howtos) in the RPM Fusion package that breaks things. And it's very 
bad for RPM Fusions reputation.
> I also tried running system-config-display --reconfig  with no change in 
> results.

system-config-display will break things as well. Steward (the package 
maintainer) is thinking about a proper fix for issues like this.

To get it work do this:

system-config-display --reconfig
nvidia-config-display --enable

HTH

CU
knurd

[Timothy Murphy]

Kevin Kempter wrote:
> system notification sound works, and rhythmbox sound works but no other
>
> sound / players work such as amaok or Kaffiene

Isn't this a fact of Fedora life?
There are 10 sound players, and only 1 of them works.
(In my case it is rhythmbox.)
One is just grateful it is not 0.