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Hello,
I'm doing a fresh install on my laptop and I'm getting some display problems. A picture is worth a thousand words, so here's my problem:
When I run Compiz-fusion, I have some weird things on the screen:
- this is a picture from gnome-look, and sometimes some pictures become blurry like this
- look when I type something in xterm
There's no such problem with metacity (btw I have gnome), so the problem comes from compiz.
There's another thing: When I go to the monitor preferences, I have a "Monitor: Unknown". I think the two problems come from my video card (NVIDIA GeForce GO 7400), but I'm not sure though. The only thing I've done to install nvidia drivers was "pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils", is this enough ?
Thanks.
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Last edited by AMA (2011-08-09 13:47:47)
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The only thing I've done to install nvidia drivers was "pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils", is this enough ?
I doubt it. The Nvidia wiki page is much longer than that single command.
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The only thing I've done to install nvidia drivers was "pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils", is this enough ?
Thats enough to successfully install the nvidia binaryblob
edit:Do you have an xorg.conf?
Last edited by Soumyadeep (2010-07-14 17:34:24)
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Well, I didn't have any xorg.conf, but I just tried a "nvidia-xconfig" and here is the fresh xorg.conf :
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 256.35 (buildmeister@builder101) Wed Jun 16 19:25:59 PDT 2010
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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No-one please ?
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don't bump! it's against the forum rules and rude besides.
also, how do things work without an xorg.conf? (i.e. move your xorg.conf to a backup and try starting x without)
Hofstadter's Law:
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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As Cyrusm mentioned keep atleast 24 hours before you bump your thread and that too only if you have something additional to add to the thread. Here's the relevant forum etiquette for it
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … te#Bumping
Secondly, we need more info. Have you tried to follow the nvidia wiki page link that vacant provided?
Last edited by Inxsible (2010-07-15 18:35:55)
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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