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oldpcuser

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Registered: 2024-10-06

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Bad resolution after nvidia proprietary drivers

So I installed arch with the open source neavou drivers and they worked great they gave me my pc's resolution which i think it was 1360x768. But when I installed my recommended drivers the 390.157 version driver it just gives me a bad stretched resolution I of course blacklisted the open source drivers and uninstalled them before doing any of this(I asked chatgpt for the steps to do these because I dont know much about arch so something may be wrong).
Here are the command I ran to install these drivers:
yay -S nvidia-390xx-dkms nvidia-390xx-utils nvidia-390xx-settings
reboot
And when I ran nvidia-smi it says
[chineseworker@DEX ~]$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
Then I ran these commands to update to the latest drivers:
sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms
sudo pacman -S linux-headers
reboot
THEN still i got the bad resolution and the error at nvidia-smi
Chatgpt told me to run cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i "nvidia\|error\|failed" so I did and got the output
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    23.410] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[    23.548] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)
[    23.548] (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
[    25.444] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[    25.444] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
[    28.975] (II) modeset(0): glamor initialization failed
[    29.616] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 (/dev/input/event10)
[    29.617] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 (/dev/input/event11)
[    29.618] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 (/dev/input/event12)
[    29.619] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 (/dev/input/event9)

I then ran dkms status to see if any errors are there but it says
nvidia/560.35.03, 6.11.2-arch1-1, x86_64: installed
I don't even know what to do anymore can anyone help im running a dell pc and my system info is
chineseworker@DEX
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OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: Precision WorkStation T3500
Kernel: 6.11.2-arch1-1
Uptime: 29 mins
Packages: 1039 (pacman)
Shell: bash 5.2.37
Resolution: 1024x768(was supposed to be 1360x768)
DE: Plasma 6.1.5
WM: kwin
Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
Icons: breeze [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
CPU: Intel Xeon W3550 (8) @ 3.060GHz
GPU: NVIDIA Quadro 2000
Memory: 2602MiB / 11959MiB

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Bad resolution after nvidia proprietary drivers

Why in the world did you install the nvidia-dkms package, which uninstalled the nvidia-390xx-dkms package, if the latest version doesn't support your card?

Forget ChatGPT, read the wiki. You shouldn't blacklist anything manually at all.

Last edited by Scimmia (2024-10-06 14:43:12)

oldpcuser

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Registered: 2024-10-06

Posts: 5

Re: Bad resolution after nvidia proprietary drivers

Well im new idk anything at all but did you read what I said?
I said that even when I installed my recommended drivers I still got bad resolution.
And what wiki do I read to Fix this

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,724

Re: Bad resolution after nvidia proprietary drivers

The nvidia wiki page, where it tells you what to install and points you to the dkms page if using that.

oldpcuser

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Registered: 2024-10-06

Posts: 5

Re: Bad resolution after nvidia proprietary drivers

okay

oldpcuser

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Registered: 2024-10-06

Posts: 5

Re: Bad resolution after nvidia proprietary drivers

Hey by the way if needed how do I revert every command that I executed earlier

oldpcuser

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Registered: 2024-10-06

Posts: 5

Re: Bad resolution after nvidia proprietary drivers

Hey so it was something very simple but I was just dumb to ask chatgpt
But I did it now