need help bad, screen problem

ssl6 · 2007-09-16 06:56:20

heres my problem. i setup arch on my desktop last night (64bit), i installed my nvidia drivers. i have a 21" crt sun monitor, not sure the model number. but i brought it to a friends this morning to update and install kdemod since they have highspeed. now i was hooked up to their monitor, they have a cheap 15" crt. so it worked fine there, now when i got it home, i get a black screen when it boots up on my monitor, i can get to a console however

i deleted a couple lines in the monitor section in the xorg.conf............so now i get 640x480 res, but i cant use anything higher

been searching around, and i found some stuff about running Xorg -configure, but i get something about a tmp file being locked..........and i dont know how to delete anything here from the console

i need help here

Last edited by ssl6 (2007-09-16 07:00:40)

ssl6 · 2007-09-16 07:13:32

nvm, i just deleted the xorg.conf and rebooted, its fine now

edit// nvm, its not using my nvidia driver.........i might still need help, im trying something right now, not sure what im doing though

ok, i tried to run nvidia-xconfig, and when i rebooted, im back to square one with my monitor flashin an invalid scan frequency

well, i deleted the xorg.conf again and got it booted up. but i generated a new one with nvidia-xconfig again, heres what i puts out, i just need to remember not to reboot any time soon. im using a 7900gs, the newest nvidia 100 series drive from the repo, and arch 64bit on this system by the way

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder26)  Wed Jun 13 16:54:14 PDT 2007


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

here's that part of the xorg.conf from my other computer running 32bit arch with a geforce 3 connected to the same monitor via kvm switch. this machine is using a 96xx driver though

Section "Monitor"

# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
#    HorizSync    30-64         # multisync
#    HorizSync    31.5, 35.2    # multiple fixed sync frequencies
#    HorizSync    15-25, 30-50  # multiple ranges of sync frequencies
# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
    Identifier     "sun"
    HorizSync       31.5 - 82.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 90.0
EndSection

Section "Device"

# The chipset line is optional in most cases.  It can be used to override
# the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.
#    Chipset    "generic"
# The Driver line must be present.  When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module.  Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.
# The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
# this section is intended for.  When this line isn't present, a device
# section can only match up with the primary video device.  For PCI
# devices a line like the following could be used.  This line should not
# normally be included unless there is more than one video device
# intalled.
#    BusID      "PCI:0:10:0"
#    VideoRam    256
#    Clocks    25.2 28.3
    Identifier     "Standard VGA"
    Driver         "vga"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    BoardName      "Unknown"
EndSection

Section "Device"

    #VideoRam    65536
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
    Identifier     "geforce"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen 1"
    Device         "geforce"
    Monitor        "sun"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

any ideas here?

Last edited by ssl6 (2007-09-16 07:53:48)

mcmillan · 2007-09-16 20:22:45

HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0.0

on the non-working

HorizSync       31.5 - 82.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 90.0

on the working

That might be worth changing. Nothing else jumped out to me though.

Last edited by mcmillan (2007-09-16 20:23:42)

kagerato · 2007-09-17 03:48:55

Check your X logs ( /var/log ) to see what is actually happening at X initialization.

Your xorg.conf's are possibly malformed. The first/nvidia-xconfig has an odd ServerLayout::Screen line. The second one has no Files, Modules, or ServerLayout sections. You can search this and other linux forums for "xorg.conf" and similar queries to get samples of well-formed xorg config files.

Leigh · 2007-09-17 06:18:34

Also there's some good info and example xorg.conf files in the Arch wiki. Just do a search on xorg

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#1 2007-09-16 06:56:20

need help bad, screen problem

#2 2007-09-16 07:13:32

Re: need help bad, screen problem

#3 2007-09-16 20:22:45

Re: need help bad, screen problem

#4 2007-09-17 03:48:55

Re: need help bad, screen problem

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