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#1 2010-07-14 09:47:16

AMA
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Registered: 2009-05-03
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Display problems

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:

201007131229021440x900s.th.png - this is a picture from gnome-look, and sometimes some pictures become blurry like this
201007141119211440x900s.th.png - 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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#2 2010-07-14 17:16:00

AMA
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Registered: 2009-05-03
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Re: Display problems

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Last edited by AMA (2011-08-09 13:47:47)

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#3 2010-07-14 17:20:54

vacant
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From: downstairs
Registered: 2004-11-05
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Re: Display problems

AMA wrote:

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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#4 2010-07-14 17:32:37

Soumyadeep
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From: kolkata,India
Registered: 2009-09-09
Posts: 218

Re: Display problems

AMA wrote:

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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#5 2010-07-14 20:49:09

AMA
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Re: Display problems

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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#6 2010-07-15 15:48:18

AMA
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Re: Display problems

No-one please ?

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#7 2010-07-15 18:29:54

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From: Bozeman, MT
Registered: 2007-11-15
Posts: 1,053

Re: Display problems

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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#8 2010-07-15 18:34:58

Inxsible
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Registered: 2008-06-09
Posts: 9,183

Re: Display problems

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)


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