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steelneck

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Registered: 2011-08-26

Posts: 57

(Solved)Xorg virtual res.change

How do i get the virtual resolution change by ctrl+alt+(numpad)+ to work? (not real change as with xrandr, this is more like zooming)

This is the first install i have experienced where this is not working with the settings i have used for many years.

This is what i use

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen1"
    Device      "NVIDIA"
    Monitor     "SyncM"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth      24
        Modes "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" 
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Another strange thing is that my screen goes about 20 pixels off screen to the left with the above, but if i comment out just the Modes line it becomes normal and keeps within the borders, but that Modes line needs normally to be there to have different virual resolutions.

Last edited by steelneck (2011-08-27 22:48:24)

steelneck

Member

Registered: 2011-08-26

Posts: 57

Re: (Solved)Xorg virtual res.change

Solved!

Now i can zoom by ctrl-alt-keypad+

This had something to do with the nouveau Nvidia kernel driver. I changed the driver in the xorg.conf to the old "nv" and blacklisted nouveau in the /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf, since xorg refused to use nv as long as the nouveau was loaded in the kernel. So this actually looks like kernel driver bug.

Last edited by steelneck (2011-08-27 22:49:22)