[solved] switched to NVIDIA, now some font and speed issues

ibrunton · 2012-08-02 00:59:46

I replaced my ATI Radeon card with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, and I've noticed a few issues. Switching to/from a virtual console and starting X is much slower now; fonts in X are a bit strange (e.g., Tamsyn in urxvt looks shorter); and the virtual terminals don't acknowledge my consolefonts settings in rc.conf at all, so the console font is huge and ugly (less than 20 lines on a 21" widescreen monitor).

Do I need to remove the ATI drivers entirely? Could they be interfering somehow? Am I supposed to have xf86-video-nouveau installed as well as the nvidia package and its deps?

Beyond that I'm kind of stumped. Suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

Edited to add: I used nvidia-xconfig to create xorg.conf but I haven't made any changes to the file.

Last edited by ibrunton (2012-08-02 23:08:32)

brebs · 2012-08-02 02:38:05

ibrunton wrote:

Tamsyn in urxvt looks shorter

Probably the nvidia driver setting your DPI. Look:

xdpyinfo | grep -B1 dot

ibrunton · 2012-08-02 02:40:57

brebs wrote:

ibrunton wrote:
Tamsyn in urxvt looks shorter
Probably the nvidia driver setting your DPI. Look:
xdpyinfo | grep -B1 dot

dimensions:   1680x1050 pixels (474x303 millimeters)
resolution:   90x88 dots per inch

Zancarius · 2012-08-02 05:04:44

ibrunton wrote:

dimensions:   1680x1050 pixels (474x303 millimeters)
resolution:   90x88 dots per inch

xdpyinfo reports mine as 101x101; I'm using an NVIDIA card as well, and my fonts look like what I remember them being under Gentoo. They're also identical in appearance to another box I have with Intel integrated graphics. Seems that you might have to play around with your DPI.

ibrunton · 2012-08-02 23:08:14

I read up on the Nouveau driver, which lead me to the KernelModeSetting page in the wiki, where I discovered that my problems with TTY fonts and switching was because the proprietary driver doesn't use KMS. I've switched to Nouveau, and it solves those problems. I think it even restored by fonts in X (urxvt, dolphin) to their previous sizes.

I love the Arch wiki!

Last edited by ibrunton (2012-08-02 23:09:41)

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#1 2012-08-02 00:59:46

[solved] switched to NVIDIA, now some font and speed issues

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Re: [solved] switched to NVIDIA, now some font and speed issues

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Re: [solved] switched to NVIDIA, now some font and speed issues

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Re: [solved] switched to NVIDIA, now some font and speed issues

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Re: [solved] switched to NVIDIA, now some font and speed issues

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