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Sue_Perb

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[SOLVED] NVIDIA screen resolution problems (solution: use nouveau)

I have recently installed arch (so i will warn you i am no expert) and have a nvidia graphics card and driver. Its all working fine apart from the screen resolution - it is very zoomed in and poor quality. I had this same issue when installing ubuntu on the same computer, however as ubuntu is graphical all i had to do was go into control panel and change nvidia settings. Yes, i have looked at the arch wiki and googled it, but i couldn't find any relevant/working results.

Thanks

Last edited by Sue_Perb (2020-06-26 10:21:32)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA screen resolution problems (solution: use nouveau)

nvidia-settings exists on Arch as well, what prevents you from going there and doing the same?

You need to elaborate more, we know absolutely nothing about your system other than that you are dissatisfied with the resolution, what chipset is this, is this a laptop or a desktop, which environment are you starting?

owain

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA screen resolution problems (solution: use nouveau)

Have you installed the nvidia driver by following the wiki? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA

Sue_Perb

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA screen resolution problems (solution: use nouveau)

Sorry
I have checked my graphics card and drivers using lspci:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216GLM [Quadro FX 880M] (rev a2)
    Subsystem: Dell Device 040c
    Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

I have an intel i7 (not sure if thats relevant)

I use Xorg and LightDM, and I have been experimenting with .conf files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, but nothing has worked so far.

I have tried to install the nvidia-settings package through pacman, but i encountered 404 errors every time.

Thanks

Last edited by Sue_Perb (2020-06-26 08:57:51)

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA screen resolution problems (solution: use nouveau)

If you get 404 errors with pacman, that usually means you need to update your system.

pacman -Syu

If that doesn't help, post the full output you get when trying to install nvidia-settings.

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA screen resolution problems (solution: use nouveau)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216GLM [Quadro FX 880M] (rev a2)

Please see NVIDIA#Unsupported_drivers,  you could try nvidia-340xx with the current X server and see if it works.

Last edited by loqs (2020-06-26 09:27:38)

Sue_Perb

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA screen resolution problems (solution: use nouveau)

Hi

Thanks for all the help. However, I am a bit of an arch noob, and I can't find a clear way to replace my driver easily. Does anyone know how I might replace my nvidia driver with nouveau or nvidia-340xx?

Thanks

Last edited by Sue_Perb (2020-06-26 09:31:29)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA screen resolution problems (solution: use nouveau)

Remove all nvidia packages,  remove or amend any Xorg config you created that uses the nvidia driver.

Sue_Perb

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA screen resolution problems (solution: use nouveau)

Fixed! Thanks for the help

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA screen resolution problems (solution: use nouveau)

Out of curiosity, did you end up with nouveau or nvidia-340xx? anyway, please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the subject line in your first post.

Sue_Perb

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA screen resolution problems (solution: use nouveau)

I uninstalled nvidia completely and used nouveau instead. How do i edit the subject line? Or do you mean the first post

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA screen resolution problems (solution: use nouveau)

If you edit the first post you can edit the subject line.