Nvidia & Twinview Weirdness
Lonni J Friedman
netllama at gmail.com
Tue May 2 20:33:46 UTC 2006
On 5/2/06, lostson <lostson at lostsonsvault.org> wrote:
> On 5/2/06, lostson <lostson at lostsonsvault.org> wrote:
> > Hello
> > I am using FC5 with a nvidia gforce 5700xp. I also use
> twinview and I
> > use the kmod-nvidia from livna. When setting up my twinview
> like I have
> > always done, I keep my xorg.conf from a backup from FC4 and It
> doesn't
> > change much. I set it up with my 1280x1024 on both screens and
> it
> > launches ok and all. The problem I am having is when going to
> System -->
> > Preferences --> Scree Resolution in Gnome it says Im running
> 2560x1024
> > which is right but the refresh rate says 50 Hz. I don't know
> why this is
> > doing this I have set my refresh rates in my xorg.conf it
> should be 60
> > Hz. Does anyone know if there is a bug in the Screen
> Resolution app ? Or
> > is there something wrong with the nvidia driver or kmod-nvidia
> module
> > from livna. The reason I ask is my eyes start to kill me after
> a hour or
> > 2 and I have never had this problem before. I could sit here
> for 12
> > horus and it would never bother me. So i'm looking for ideas
> and
> > thoughts, thanks.
>
> What does your X log say?
>
>
> I believe this is the relevant portion
not really.
>
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 8X
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce FX 5700
> Ultra at
> (--) NVIDIA(0): PCI:2:0:0:
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (CRT-0)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-1
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (CRT-0): 400 MHz maximum
> pixel clock
> (--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-1: 400 MHz maximum pixel clock
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Devices: CRT-0, CRT-1
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
> (II) NVIDIA(0): "1280x1024_60.00,1280x1024_60.00"
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 2560 x 1024
> (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (90, 96); computed from "UseEdidDpi"
> X config option
> (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
>
> Hopefully this helps, I dont think I am getting 60 Hz though ?
Hard to say based on the snippet above. Start X with the following command:
startx -- -logverbose 5
and then post the full X log.
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