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alex404

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Registered: 2009-12-03

Posts: 51

New nvidia drivers, no more screen rotation?

I don't rotate my screen to often, so it's hard for me to be sure, but I'm fairly certain that it was after I installed the latest nvidia drivers that screen rotation no longer works.

When I try xrandr -o left or I try to rotate within nvidia-settings, I get this:

X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  154 (RANDR)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  2 (RRSetScreenConfig)
  Value in failed request:  0x780
  Serial number of failed request:  14
  Current serial number in output stream:  14

When I more explicitly write out, xrandr --output default --rotate left, I get this:

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1920x1200 (desired size 1200x1920)

If I lower my resolution so that both sides are less then 1200, then I can freely rotate.

Any thoughts?

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: New nvidia drivers, no more screen rotation?

What's the size of the virtual screen (or whatever the name is) in your xorg.conf or some other config file?
IIRC it should go into the "Screen" section:

           # ADD A VIRTUAL LINE TO PROVIDE FOR THE LARGEST SCREENS YOU WILL HOTPLUG
           Virtual              2048 2048

Last edited by karol (2011-02-05 14:59:03)

alex404

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Registered: 2009-12-03

Posts: 51

Re: New nvidia drivers, no more screen rotation?

There doesn't appear to be any resolution information in my xorg.conf

I'll test out the virtual thingy now...

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 260.19.36  (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-01.nvidia.com)  Tue Jan 18 17:15:22 PST 2011

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/TTF/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dri2"
    Load           "record"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "dbe"
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"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName      "G98 [GeForce 8400 GS]"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    Option         "RandRRotation" "on"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
    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

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "enable"
EndSection

Last edited by alex404 (2011-02-05 15:02:33)

alex404

Member

Registered: 2009-12-03

Posts: 51

Re: New nvidia drivers, no more screen rotation?

Unfortunately that didn't appear to do anything.

Cyclone

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Registered: 2011-02-07

Posts: 1

Re: New nvidia drivers, no more screen rotation?

I had the same problem. Downgrading xorg-server (and xorg-server-common) from 1.9.3 to 1.9.2-2 fixed it for me.

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: New nvidia drivers, no more screen rotation?

Please report it on flyspray. Or perhaps check whether the same occurs on other distros (nvidia forums looks like a good place to start)

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litemotiv

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Re: New nvidia drivers, no more screen rotation?

Duplicate, please continue here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111545

Closed.

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