Screen moves to the right when booting arch (or linux)

xirus · 2003-04-05 07:31:54

I'm not the only one that's working on this box, and they only use windows. But when the screen is centered in windows, and I boot it in arch then, I have to move it to the left (30 pixels or something) and after booting in windows, it has to be moved to the right again...

This is not an arch specific problem, and I had the same problem with gentoo too in the beginning, but somehow that got sorted out :shock:

Am I the only one with this problem? are there solutions?

thx

Arielext · 2003-04-05 09:41:55

Do you run linux and windowscin the exact same resolution?
Have you told X what kind of a monitor you have?

These are monitor refresh related "problems"

xirus · 2003-04-05 09:48:30

Yes, and that's the problem. If I'd run both in a different resolution, my monitor would remember the exact position. Now they're both using 1280*1024

Nope, X doesn't know my monitor, but I've given it the H/V sync that are in my monitor's manual

Arielext · 2003-04-05 18:12:34

nvidia based card?
maybe you are suffering from the 75hz "bug" in windows.

If your monitor can handle a frequency of 75+hz and your windows is using an older version of the nvidia drivers then your windows will cap the frequency to 75hz (so I've heard)
Try installing the latest nvidia drivers for both windows and arch.

xirus · 2003-04-05 18:50:15

Yes, I have an nvidia card, but also the latest driver on windows...

But now I think I know when this problem got fixed on gentoo: maybe after installing the linux nvidia driver (I'm using nv2 now)

I'll install the nvidia driver to see what it gives...

apeiro · 2003-04-05 19:20:24

Try changing your Modelines in XF86Config. You can generate them with the xvidtune program.

BluPhoenyx · 2003-04-05 22:03:44

apeiro wrote:

Try changing your Modelines in XF86Config. You can generate them with the xvidtune program.

This is most likely the problem. Newer versions of X are capable of scanning the via PnP which may also cause problems.

Of course you might get lucky by letting X detect the proper settings by commenting out any modelines in X configuration file.

FWIW, you can also change the frequency in Windows although this may not apply to all video cards. Generally Windows tries to use the video card's settings. Between the X settings and the Windows settings you should be able to match them.

xirus · 2003-04-06 18:28:43

thx!

that solved my problem completely

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#1 2003-04-05 07:31:54

Screen moves to the right when booting arch (or linux)

#2 2003-04-05 09:41:55

Re: Screen moves to the right when booting arch (or linux)

#3 2003-04-05 09:48:30

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#4 2003-04-05 18:12:34

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