problem with nvida settings

[François Patte]

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Le 08/10/2009 00:36, Gerhard Magnus a écrit :
> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 17:06 -0400, Jim wrote:
>> On 10/07/2009 04:56 PM, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
>>>    
>>>>> How can I get the resolution setting for my nvidia card to stick?
>>>>> Whenever I log on the resolution reverts to 1280 x 1024. I can reset
>>>>> this to 1680 X 1050 using the nvidia-settings widget and I click the
>>>>> "Save to X Configuration File" button but this setting only lasts
>>>>> through my current session.
>>>>>        
>>>>      
>>> 1- System>Administration>Livna Display configuration
>>> Then untick "Allow livna-config-display to edit configuration files"
>>> 2- Write your own xorg.conf file
>>>
>>> I've done this and it doesn't do any good. It also doesn't seem to
>>> matter what I put in the xorg.conf file -- or even if I have no
>>> xorg.conf file at all. When I logon the desktop has 1280x1024
>>> resolution. I can change this to 1680x1050 using the nvidia-settings
>>> widget but this change is always lost when I reboot.
>>>
>>> I'm running FC11 with a PAE kernel and kmod-nvidia. The videocard is a
>>> GeForce 6200 (nvidia series 6) and the monitor is a ViewSonic VG2030wm.
>>>
>>> nvidia-settings... system-config-display... livna-config-display... or
>>> even .nvidia-settings-rc (a file I found in my home directory) -- Who's
>>> in charge? And what's livna doing here anyway, it's not one of my
>>>    
>> Copy and paste this into your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>> Put it just after the "Device Section"
>> And change the "1024x768" to the settings you want, be sure you leave the
>> "   " there when you change the setting you want.
> 
>> Section "Screen"
>>      Identifier "Screen0"
>>      Device     "Videocard0"
>>      Monitor    "Monitor0"
>>      DefaultDepth     24
>>      SubSection "Display"
>>          Viewport   0 0
>>          Depth     24
>>          Modes    "1024x768"
>>      EndSubSection
>> EndSection
>>
> It still doesn't work. Here's what my xorg.conf file looks like. (I've
> taken out the "InputDevice" sections for clarity.)
> 
> # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
> # nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister at builder63)  Fri Aug 14
> 17:55:55 PDT 2009
> 
> # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
> # nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister at builder63)  Fri Aug 14
> 17:54:58 PDT 2009
> # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier     "Default Layout"
>     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
>     ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"

## add this in this section
ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"


> EndSection

What is the report in /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

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François Patte
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Université Paris Descartes
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