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carrouf

Member

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 34

incorrect CRT refresh rate after latest xorg update

Hi

I upgraded (pacman -Syu) a few days ago and now my CRT displays an incorrect refresh rate so it actually makes my eyes cry ! Very annoying, as you would imagine.  I haven't been going with any problem of this kind for years , so i don't believe this is coming from xorg.conf (unchanged for a long time), unless newest xorg or nvidia packages require some new settings for xorg.conf that I am not aware of.

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"
    Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option "Twinview" "True"
    Option "UseEdidDpi" "false"
    Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
    Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
    Option "MetaModes" "CRT: nvidia-autoselect 1400x1050 +0+0, DFP: nvidia-autoselect 1680x1050 +1400+0 ; CRT: 1400x1050, DFP: 1680x1050 ; CRT: 1400x1050, DFP: NULL ; CRT: 1280x1024, DFP: NULL ; CRT: 1280x960, DFP: NULL; CRT: 1024x768, DFP: NULL; CRT: 800x600, DFP: NULL"
    #Option "UseDisplayDevice" "CRT"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
    #Option "XEVIE" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    #Option         "TwinView" "True"
    #Option         "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"

SubSection "Display"
        Depth     1
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     4
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     8
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     15
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     16
        Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1200x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     24
        Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1200x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     32
        Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1200x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

I guess this the price to pay dealing with Arch : you're always up to date, but the update often breaks something that just worked fine.

Hope someone has an idea.

Thanks/

mapr

Member

Registered: 2008-06-29

Posts: 20

Re: incorrect CRT refresh rate after latest xorg update

yaourt -Syu of system messed up my nvidia or/and xorg.conf settings also. Now I can not choose 1680x1050 resolution for my 22"LCD, nvidia-settings would let me choose higher ones and lower ones but not the right one.  Having only one screen and until this setting up xorg.conf have not taken that long.

[EDIT] Downgrading xorg-server and xorg-server-utils solved the issue for me, only had to to change refresh rate at nvidia-settings.

Last edited by mapr (2009-04-09 14:53:47)