faulty screen resolution with nouveau

streetwise · 2009-11-03 23:26:55

hi,

after nvidia-blob's crashed with the new xorg (1.7.1), i switched to the nouveau driver. it kind'a works but the screen is shifted towards the right and there is a black horizontal line on the left-hand side. i also think the resolution is faulty as i can't see the bottom of the screen. this is a geforce fx5500 vga card plugged into an LCD tv through a DVI-HDMI cable. there's no other screen.

here's my xrandr output

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 720, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-0 connected 1280x720+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
axis) 708mm x 398mm
   1280x720       50.0* 
   720x576        50.0  
   720x480        59.9  
   640x480        60.0  
TV-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

I don't know if it can be fixed by tweaking xrandr modes and my knowledge on xrandr is fairly limited.

any help is appreciated.

edit: here's my xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "dri2"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
        #Option     "FPDither"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPScale"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ScalingMode"               # <str>
        #Option     "EXAPixmaps"                # [<bool>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nouveau"
        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
        BoardName   "NV34 [GeForce FX 5500]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     1
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     4
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     15
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Last edited by streetwise (2009-11-03 23:30:19)

shining · 2009-11-09 11:21:48

is that with or without kms ? (try both)

what is your normal resolution ?

you could also try rebuilding nouveau-drm without this bad patch :
http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/package … tion.patch

streetwise · 2009-11-09 11:27:47

i tried both, no go.

my native resolution is 1920x1080 but i prefer 1280x720.

i'll try the patch and let know. thanks.

CaptainKirk · 2009-11-09 11:46:01

Check out my post here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=84296 I had to add horiz and vert refresh rates to xorg.conf to get the correct physical viewport on my monitor.

Maybe that will help you also.

shining · 2009-11-09 16:47:41

Another thing : if you could post your full Xorg log and dmesg somewhere, it would be useful.

ig0r · 2009-11-13 06:37:56

I had the same problem, last update fix it.

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#1 2009-11-03 23:26:55

faulty screen resolution with nouveau

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Re: faulty screen resolution with nouveau

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Re: faulty screen resolution with nouveau

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Re: faulty screen resolution with nouveau

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Re: faulty screen resolution with nouveau

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