{"id":389,"date":"2006-04-13T16:05:05","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T19:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devin.com.br\/eitch\/blog\/2006\/04\/13\/nvidias-driver-and-resolution-problems\/"},"modified":"2006-04-13T16:05:05","modified_gmt":"2006-04-13T19:05:05","slug":"nvidias-driver-and-resolution-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devin.com.br\/eitch\/nvidias-driver-and-resolution-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"NVidia&#8217;s driver and resolution problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I updated my Fedora Core 5&#8217;s X11 drivers to use the official nvidia driver (packaged by livna), I got a strange problem: the only supported resolution was 1680&#215;1050, which is my widescreen LCD max resolution from my laptop. When I tried to play games like Armagetron and LBreakout2, the fullscreen wasn&#8217;t working because when the fullscreen mode is activated, the program automatically resize the X server resolution and scales the game to go fullscreen. But this wasn&#8217;t happening! Typing CTRL+ALT+[-\/+] didn&#8217;t help either&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I tried many configurations, <strong>many<\/strong>. Looking at the Xorg logs (<code>\/var\/log\/Xorg.0.log<\/code>) I realized that the problem was with something about the EDID checking and definying automatically the Horizonal and Vertical frequencies and resolution modes. So I found out that putting the option:<\/p>\n<p><code>Option      \"UseEdidFreqs\" \"False\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p>In section <code>\"Device\"<\/code>, I could manually define my modes. I hope this information could be useful for anyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Xorg configuration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So this is my <code>xorg.conf<\/code>, containing the configuration for my laptop (which is a HP Pavilion zv5000, with GeForce 440 Go 64MB and a 15.4 Widescreen LCD).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devin.com.br\/eitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/xorgconf.txt\">xorg.conf<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--bd312086198c9eb9c1fd73b55088f13c--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I updated my Fedora Core 5&#8217;s X11 drivers to use the official nvidia driver (packaged by livna), I got a strange problem: the only supported resolution was 1680&#215;1050, which is my widescreen LCD max resolution from my laptop. When &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.devin.com.br\/eitch\/nvidias-driver-and-resolution-problems\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NVidia&#8217;s driver and resolution problems<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devin.com.br\/eitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devin.com.br\/eitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devin.com.br\/eitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devin.com.br\/eitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devin.com.br\/eitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devin.com.br\/eitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devin.com.br\/eitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devin.com.br\/eitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devin.com.br\/eitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}