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geraldotfilho

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Registered: 2008-04-02

Posts: 5

LCD can't display fullscreen 3D apps.

Hi, everybody. As you'll all see, I'm new to Arch (but I'm really excited about it, and I'm willing to learn everything).
The only serious problem I've experienced since the installation is this:
I cannot play games! =/
I already tried lots of things int my xorg.conf (i can't say everything, but almost). The problem is certainly not about 3D acceleration, as I already run Compiz Fusion and windowed 3D games (in KDEmod, by the way...). The darkness takes my room only when I try running fullscreen stuff. The LCD monitor (LG L1753T-SF) return me an "Analogic: out of scale (81.1KHz / 65Hz)" message.
My 3D card is an Nvidia FX5200. I believe the drivers are decently installed, as I followed the official guides (and I already have a nice 3D acceleration).
It has been a month since I started trying to fix this. I hate having to reboot into another distribution in order to play (for me, Arch is now "THE" distribution and KDEmod is "THE" desktop environment ).
I thank you all for the coming help!
And I apologize for the bad english (I'm brazilian...).

Here's my xorg.conf:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Thu Feb 14 18:20:37 PST 2008


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         "keyboard"
    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option "XkbLayout" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"  "True"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option "BackingStore"  "True"
    Option "DamageEvents"  "True"
EndSection

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

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option       "AddARBGLXVisuals"  "True"
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
    Option         "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"
    Option         "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "true"
    Option         "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Last edited by geraldotfilho (2008-04-03 01:55:42)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: LCD can't display fullscreen 3D apps.

out of scale (81.1KHz / 65Hz)

    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0

Lower that 83?

geraldotfilho

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Registered: 2008-04-02

Posts: 5

Re: LCD can't display fullscreen 3D apps.

I'll try that. But '30 - 83' is part of the LG specs for this model..

geraldotfilho

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Registered: 2008-04-02

Posts: 5

Re: LCD can't display fullscreen 3D apps.

It didn't work... I lowered that to 30-50, but nothing.

StuieT

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Registered: 2008-01-19

Posts: 5

Re: LCD can't display fullscreen 3D apps.

I am getting pretty much the same problem so I thought I would post my xorg.conf to see iff somebody canfind correlations between the two and come up with a soluution.

I  too am using an Nvidia graphics card, a GeForce 6100 nForce 405 and a lcd monitor,acer X193W

I too also running KDEmod

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Thu Feb 14 18:20:37 PST 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    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         "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 81.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
    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
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Hope somebody can get to the bottom of this

geraldotfilho

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Registered: 2008-04-02

Posts: 5

Re: LCD can't display fullscreen 3D apps.

Let's say that's not about xorg.conf (just saying, i really don't know).
What else could it be? Is there some other thing we could work with?

dabski

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Registered: 2008-02-07

Posts: 101

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Re: LCD can't display fullscreen 3D apps.

Nvidia-settings has its own configuration file stored in your home directory, you could try looking their and edit it manually or by running nvidia-settings. Nvidia-settings can also detect your display and save the changes it makes to the your xorg.conf. If your not already, you could also try using a DVI cable instead of a VGA one.

geraldotfilho

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Registered: 2008-04-02

Posts: 5

Re: LCD can't display fullscreen 3D apps.

Unfortunatelly, i already tried that (nvidia-settings nvidia configuration file), and i can't use a DVI cable (and problably would not resolve my problem, because i already run these games over other distributions).
Thank you, anyway...