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mattmils

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Registered: 2011-05-16

Posts: 7

X11, Nvidia and Black rectangle

Hi guys,
Sorry if this has already been asked but I couldnt find anything that really solved my problem.

I updated last night to the new nvidia drivers, and now soon after I boot the system up and enter in X11 (tryed with gnome and lxde) a black rectangle appears on the screen covering almost everything (there's still a little portion at the top where I can see the mouse moving etc).

I dont really know what to do. Nothing strange in dmesg tho. The system is a nvidia ION based htpc.

Any idea?

Thanks!

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: X11, Nvidia and Black rectangle

"updated last night" doesn't tell me much - what packages, what versions?
What's in the xorg logs?

mattmils

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Registered: 2011-05-16

Posts: 7

Re: X11, Nvidia and Black rectangle

Oh sorry I wrote the post quickly and I forgot the obvious things.
Anyway the nvidia version is 285.05.09-1 and here's the Xorg log, I cant see anything strange.

https://gist.github.com/1290840

Thanks.

/matt

mattmils

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Registered: 2011-05-16

Posts: 7

Re: X11, Nvidia and Black rectangle

Ok, after half a day of tests the problem has to be addressed to the overscan feature of nvidia-settings. I found that the more overscan compensation is put the more the screen is cut. I dont know if it is caused by nvidia, xorg or a combination of both.