Monitor not showing the whole screen when I log out of Xorg/Openbox

teatreetea · 2011-01-12 15:27:17

Please help, what happens is..
I log into arch, it boots fine (it displays the loading of daemons in like arabic or something but that's another matter!), I can see everything, I 'startx' into Openbox and that's all fine but when I log out of X it cuts off the bottom of my screen.
I've got a widescreen 1680x1080 monitor and an Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS graphics card and I've tried using nvidia and nouveau drivers.
It only started AFTER i'd installed Xorg, I'd just log into x then kill it and i'd have half my screen missing.
I've tried setting nvidia-settings and editing the conf files in Xorg but it must be an issue outside of X surely, as It's always fine in openbox?

any ideas?

Thanks.

EDIT: I did try searching but to no avail - if there's a topic on this i'm very sorry =/

Last edited by teatreetea (2011-01-12 15:28:07)

Inxsible · 2011-01-12 15:32:49

Lets start with seeing /var/log/Xorg.0.log first.

teatreetea · 2011-01-12 16:05:29

I don't know how to do the nested scroll thing I'm sorry

/var/log/Xorg.0.log
[  3557.788] (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
[  3557.788] (II) LoadModule: "record"
[  3557.788] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/librecord.so
[  3557.788] (II) Module record: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[  3557.788]     compiled for 1.9.2, module version = 1.13.0
[  3557.788]     Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[  3557.788]     ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 4.0
[  3557.788] (II) Loading extension RECORD
[  3557.788] (II) LoadModule: "extmod"
[  3557.788] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
[  3557.788] (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[  3557.788]     compiled for 1.9.2, module version = 1.0.0
[  3557.788]     Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[  3557.788]     ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 4.0
[  3557.788] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[  3557.788] (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
[  3557.788] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
[  3557.788] (II) Loading extension DPMS
[  3557.788] (II) Loading extension XVideo
[  3557.788] (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
[  3557.788] (II) Loading extension X-Resource
[  3557.788] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[  3557.789] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[  3557.799] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[  3557.799]     compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[  3557.799]     Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[  3557.799] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module  260.19.29  Wed Dec  8 12:24:30 PST 2010
[  3557.799] (II) Loading extension GLX
[  3557.799] (II) LoadModule: "dri"
[  3557.799] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
[  3557.800] (II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[  3557.800]     compiled for 1.9.2, module version = 1.0.0
[  3557.800]     ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 4.0
[  3557.800] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
[  3557.800] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[  3557.800] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri2.so
[  3557.800] (II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[  3557.800]     compiled for 1.9.2, module version = 1.2.0
[  3557.800]     ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 4.0
[  3557.800] (II) Loading extension DRI2
[  3557.800] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[  3557.800] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[  3557.801] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[  3557.801]     compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[  3557.801]     Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[  3558.216] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  260.19.29  Wed Dec  8 12:10:14 PST 2010
[  3558.216] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[  3558.216] (--) using VT number 8
[  3558.220] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[  3558.220] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[  3558.220] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
[  3558.221] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[  3558.221]     compiled for 1.9.2, module version = 1.0.0
[  3558.221]     ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[  3558.221] (II) Loading sub module "wfb"
[  3558.221] (II) LoadModule: "wfb"
[  3558.221] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so
[  3558.221] (II) Module wfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[  3558.221]     compiled for 1.9.2, module version = 1.0.0
[  3558.221]     ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[  3558.221] (II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
[  3558.221] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
[  3558.221] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
[  3558.221] (II) NVIDIA(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
    "Screen0" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
[  3558.221] (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[  3558.221] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
[  3558.221] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[  3558.221] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[  3558.221] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
[  3558.222] (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
[  3558.222] (II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.
[  3559.086] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 8400 GS (G98) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
[  3559.086] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 524288 kBytes
[  3559.086] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 62.98.71.00.52
[  3559.086] (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
[  3559.086] (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
[  3559.086] (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce 8400 GS at PCI:1:0:0
[  3559.086] (--) NVIDIA(0):     NTS MBW-SERIAL (CRT-1)
[  3559.086] (--) NVIDIA(0): NTS MBW-SERIAL (CRT-1): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[  3559.136] (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: CRT-1
[  3559.136] (==) NVIDIA(0): 
[  3559.136] (==) NVIDIA(0): No modes were requested; the default mode "nvidia-auto-select"
[  3559.136] (==) NVIDIA(0):     will be used as the requested mode.
[  3559.136] (==) NVIDIA(0): 
[  3559.136] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
[  3559.136] (II) NVIDIA(0):     "nvidia-auto-select"
[  3559.136] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1680 x 1050
[  3559.172] (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (90, 88); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
[  3559.172] (--) NVIDIA(0):     option
[  3559.172] (==) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals.
[  3559.172] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[  3559.172] (II) NVIDIA: Using 768.00 MB of virtual memory for indirect memory access.
[  3559.174] (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
[  3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI: failed to connect to the ACPI event daemon; the daemon
[  3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0):     may not be running or the "AcpidSocketPath" X
[  3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0):     configuration option may not be set correctly.  When the
[  3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0):     ACPI event daemon is available, the NVIDIA X driver will
[  3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0):     try to use it to receive ACPI event notifications.  For
[  3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0):     details, please see the "ConnectToAcpid" and
[  3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0):     "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration options in Appendix B: X
[  3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0):     Config Options in the README.
[  3559.187] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
[  3559.254] (II) Loading extension NV-GLX
[  3559.278] (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized OpenGL Acceleration
[  3559.283] (==) NVIDIA(0): Disabling shared memory pixmaps
[  3559.283] (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized X Rendering Acceleration
[  3559.283] (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
[  3559.283] (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
[  3559.290] (==) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
[  3559.290] (II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
[  3559.291] (II) Loading extension XINERAMA
[  3559.291] (II) Loading sub module "dri2"
[  355/var/log/Xorg.0.log                 
[  3559.767] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: always reports core events
[  3559.767] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
[  3559.786] (--) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Found keys
[  3559.786] (II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Configuring as keyboard
[  3559.786] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Translated Set 2 key$
[  3559.786] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[  3559.786] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[  3559.786] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[  3559.787] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PC Speaker (/dev/input/event$
[  3559.787] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)

mod edit: code tags

Last edited by litemotiv (2011-01-12 16:12:59)

Mr Green · 2011-01-12 16:05:38

First set up base system first does sound like you have not edited your config files

Second what output do you get when you startx as user

MrG

Wrap your post with code tags!

Last edited by Mr Green (2011-01-12 16:06:25)

Inxsible · 2011-01-12 16:14:02

Baah...litemotiv beat me to it. I was just editing the ops post to add code tags

teatreetea · 2011-01-23 19:04:52

someone can delete this if they want, I reinstalled Arch from scratch (I was going to anyway) and installed nouveau instead of the other nvidia driver and it works like a dream now! sorry to waste your time.

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#1 2011-01-12 15:27:17

Monitor not showing the whole screen when I log out of Xorg/Openbox

#2 2011-01-12 15:32:49

Re: Monitor not showing the whole screen when I log out of Xorg/Openbox

#3 2011-01-12 16:05:29

Re: Monitor not showing the whole screen when I log out of Xorg/Openbox

#4 2011-01-12 16:05:38

Re: Monitor not showing the whole screen when I log out of Xorg/Openbox

#5 2011-01-12 16:14:02

Re: Monitor not showing the whole screen when I log out of Xorg/Openbox

#6 2011-01-23 19:04:52

Re: Monitor not showing the whole screen when I log out of Xorg/Openbox

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