Wrong Screen Resolution after uninstalling nvidia packages from rpmfusion

jd1008 jd1008 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 22:14:31 UTC 2014


On 09/30/2014 04:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 10/01/14 05:39, jd1008 wrote:
>> My physical screenis 1280x800. It is the screen of a Dell Latitude E6500 laptop.
>>
>> Now, all gui app windows are being displayed as if my physical screen is 1280x760,
>> and the app's window is 1280x800, thus  I can pan the window up and down by
>> moving the mouse to top of screen or bottom of screen.
>>
>> This resizing happened AFTER I uninstalled the rpmfusion nvidia packages:
>>
>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64
>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304xx.x86_64
>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304xx-devel.x86_64
>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304xx-libs.x86_64
>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64
>>
>> xrandr reports:
>>
>> # xrandr --verbose
>> xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
>> Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1280 x 768, maximum 1280 x 768
>> default connected 1280x768+0+0 (0x186) normal (normal) 0mm x 0mm
>>          Identifier: 0x181
>>          Timestamp:  55232
>>          Subpixel:   unknown
>>          Clones:
>>          CRTC:       0
>>          CRTCs:      0
>>          Transform:  1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
>>                      0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
>>                      0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
>>                     filter:
>>    1280x720 (0x182)  0.000MHz
>>          h: width  1280 start    0 end    0 total 1280 skew    0 clock   0.00KHz
>>          v: height  720 start    0 end    0 total 720           clock   0.00Hz
>>    1024x768 (0x183) 47.972MHz
>>          h: width  1024 start    0 end    0 total 1024 skew    0 clock  46.85KHz
>>          v: height  768 start    0 end    0 total 768           clock  61.00Hz
>>    800x600 (0x184) 29.280MHz
>>          h: width   800 start    0 end    0 total  800 skew    0 clock  36.60KHz
>>          v: height  600 start    0 end    0 total 600           clock  61.00Hz
>>    640x480 (0x185) 18.432MHz
>>          h: width   640 start    0 end    0 total  640 skew    0 clock  28.80KHz
>>          v: height  480 start    0 end    0 total 480           clock  60.00Hz
>>    1280x768 (0x186)  0.000MHz *current
>>          h: width  1280 start    0 end    0 total 1280 skew    0 clock   0.00KHz
>>          v: height  768 start    0 end    0 total 768           clock   0.00Hz
>>
>> Is there a way to restore it back to physical resolution of 1280x800?
>>
> Now the you have connectivity and have taken this to the list....  I should tell the list what has been found so far...
>
> As I said, I'm fairly certain you're having problems due to this in your Xorg.log
>
> [    29.862] (EE) [drm] KMS not enabled
> [    29.862] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
> [    29.862] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
>
> Looking down further you see it is falling back and using the VESA driver and not nouveau.
>
> [    29.863] (II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> [    29.863]    compiled for 1.14.4, module version = 1.0.0
> [    29.863]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 14.1
> [    29.863] (II) VESA(0): initializing int10
> [    29.864] (II) VESA(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
> [    29.919] (II) VESA(0): VESA BIOS detected
> [    29.919] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0
> [    29.919] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 14336 kB
>
> So, that is the problem....   That, I believe, is often caused by another driver being loaded and interfering in things.
>
> It can also be caused by having a parameter set in the boot line....but I see that is not the case as you have...
>
>   [    29.631] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.3-200.fc20.x86_64 root=UUID=691db345-e126-4dc7-8846-95545a9422f7 ro vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb quiet quiet splash acpi=off
>
> Sooo....
>
> What is the output of "lsmod"?
$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                   91446  2
ip6table_filter        12815  0
ip6_tables             26809  1 ip6table_filter
ebtable_nat            12807  0
ebtables               30758  1 ebtable_nat
bnep                   19624  2
bluetooth             433970  5 bnep
scsi_transport_iscsi    97405  1
nf_conntrack_ipv4      14656  7
nf_defrag_ipv4         12702  1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
xt_conntrack           12760  7
nf_conntrack           99420  2 xt_conntrack,nf_conntrack_ipv4
gpio_ich               13586  0
iTCO_wdt               13480  2
iTCO_vendor_support    13419  1 iTCO_wdt
dell_laptop            18168  0
dcdbas                 14875  1 dell_laptop
dm_service_time        12817  1
arc4                   12608  2
iwldvm                240966  0
mac80211              623787  1 iwldvm
coretemp               13441  0
kvm                   452677  0
uvcvideo               81022  0
videobuf2_vmalloc      13163  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops       13161  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_core         57175  1 uvcvideo
v4l2_common            14542  1 videobuf2_core
videodev              147660  3 uvcvideo,v4l2_common,videobuf2_core
media                  20846  2 uvcvideo,videodev
microcode              44710  0
joydev                 17344  0
serio_raw              13434  0
i2c_i801               18146  0
sdhci_pci              23261  0
snd_hda_codec_idt      59442  1
snd_hda_codec_generic    67662  1 snd_hda_codec_idt
sdhci                  38781  1 sdhci_pci
mmc_core              121087  2 sdhci,sdhci_pci
snd_hda_intel          30379  4
lpc_ich                21093  0
mfd_core               13182  1 lpc_ich
snd_hda_controller     30139  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec         131298  4 
snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_hwdep              17650  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq                62266  0
snd_seq_device         14136  1 snd_seq
snd_pcm               104333  3 
snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
iwlwifi               125702  1 iwldvm
cfg80211              500115  3 iwlwifi,mac80211,iwldvm
snd_timer              28778  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd                    75905  17 
snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device
rfkill                 21979  5 cfg80211,bluetooth,dell_laptop
soundcore              14491  2 snd,snd_hda_codec
shpchp                 37047  0
nfsd                  283833  1
auth_rpcgss            58761  1 nfsd
nfs_acl                12741  1 nfsd
lockd                  93436  1 nfsd
sunrpc                279214  5 nfsd,auth_rpcgss,lockd,nfs_acl
binfmt_misc            17431  1
dm_multipath           22721  2 dm_service_time
i2c_algo_bit           13257  0
drm_kms_helper         58041  0
firewire_ohci          40502  0
ttm                    80772  0
yenta_socket           45136  0
firewire_core          62559  1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t              12613  1 firewire_core
drm                   291361  2 ttm,drm_kms_helper
e1000e                230448  0
ptp                    19140  1 e1000e
pps_core               19130  1 ptp
i2c_core               55486  6 
drm,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,v4l2_common,videodev
8021q                  28933  0
garp                   14046  1 8021q
mrp                    18446  1 8021q
tun                    27153  0
bridge                116006  0
stp                    12868  2 garp,bridge
llc                    13941  3 stp,garp,bridge
bonding               136579  0


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