Wacky Screen Resolution

cousinlucky · posted: 2012-10-22 04:40

My screen resolution is supposed to be 1280 x 1040 and that is what it says in the control center but what I am looking at is not 1280 x 1024. As a matter of fact this posting box is almost taking up the whole screen and it is not supposed to be like that. Something is wrong!!

Alanarchy · posted: 2012-10-22 12:39

I thought you were using a Nvidia card and drivers, Cousin Lucky, in which case the screen resolution settings are controlled by nvidia-xserver-settings and not the AntiX control panel.

And this is just a guess but xserver-core updated yesterday, which might require Nvidia configuring accordingly, including a reboot.

cousinlucky · posted: 2012-10-22 19:09

You are correct, Alanarchy!! How do I access the nvidia-xserver-settings, please?

BitJam · posted: 2012-10-22 19:54

Try running"nvidia-settings" from a terminal window.

cousinlucky · posted: 2012-10-23 02:34

Neither nvidia-settings nor nvidia-config helped.

Dave · posted: 2012-10-23 03:32

like said previously there was an update to xorg-core. This update most likely requires the reinstallation of your proprietary nvidia driver. i needed to reinstall the driver for it to function properly. I used sgfxi outside of x to reinstall the driver. There should be a few mentions of using sgfxi in the forum, but if there is not i can write out one for you,or maybe a how to page

cousinlucky · posted: 2012-10-23 09:06

I went to the package manager and discovered that I only had nvidia-detect installed. I added the core , gix and nvidia-settings and my screen resolution is now even worse at 1024x768. However I can access nvidia-settings but I do not know how to set it up.

rokytnji · posted: 2012-10-23 09:35

cousinlucky wrote:I went to the package manager and discovered that I only had nvidia-detect installed. I added the core , gix and nvidia-settings and my screen resolution is now even worse at 1024x768. However I can access nvidia-settings but I do not know how to set it up.

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux"
linktext was:"ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux"
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... -guide.txt

You might be better off running sgfxi though as Dave suggested Cuz. You probably need to learn smxi and sgfxi eventually. Once learned you will enjoy the knowledge.

4. What about sgfxi? What does that do?

sgfxi is the script in smxi that deals with installing graphical drivers. As with smxi, it must be run out of X desktop. Logged as root, type:

sgfxi

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://sblinux.org/antix/index.html#How_to_use_sgfxi"
linktext was:"http://sblinux.org/antix/index.html#How_to_use_sgfxi"
====================================

It was hit or miss for me also cuz leaning smxi and sgfxi scripts and how to run them. Practice made perfect for me though. I know it is hard learning geek. But one needs to learn new things painfully sometimes.

My graphics chip and resolution after running sgfxi

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harry@bikertest:~
$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Card: Intel 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller 
           X.Org: 1.12.3.902 drivers: vesa,intel (unloaded: fbdev) Resolution: 1280x1024@0.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A
harry@bikertest:~
$ xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1280x1024       0.0* 
   1024x768        0.0  
   800x600         0.0  
   640x480         0.0

See. No glx at all on my box and large screen resolution with the driver via sgfxi. I did not install/write a xorg.conf file either while in sgfxi either.

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harry@bikertest:~
$ locate / etc/X11/xorg.conf
/ etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
/ etc/X11/xorg.conf.in
/ etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/synaptics.conf

cousinlucky · posted: 2012-10-23 21:32

Thanks for the links explaining how to use sgfxi. Now that that is done what am I to do next, gentlemen, please?

cousinlucky · posted: 2012-10-23 22:11

I did an apt-get install nvidia-detect but the screen resolution remains wrong.

cousinlucky · posted: 2012-10-23 22:20

This is what I now have on my computer. How can I change the resolution to 1280 x 1024?

cousinlucky@antiX1:~
$ inxi -G
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV44A [GeForce 6200] X.Org: 1.12.4 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1024x768@85.0hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce 6200/AGP/SSE/3DNOW! GLX Version: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 304.60
cousinlucky@antiX1:~

Dave · posted: 2012-10-23 22:25

when you install a nvidia driver using sgfxi it would have installed the nvidia-settings utility that is related to the driver. It should show up in the menu. If it does not you can run it from terminal as root or regular user, however if you plan to save the changes to your xorg.conf then you will need to run nvidia-settings as root.

rokytnji · posted: 2012-10-24 00:02

Hmmm. I wonder. I went out to my dumpster pc in the motorcycle shop that has a 22" crt monitor.

I installed my radeon driver for it using sgfxi back when I installed AntiX11 base on this unit.
I did not like the default screen resolution the radeon driver supplied. So I forced 1024X768 on it for my bad eye sight.

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~$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] 
           X.Org: 1.12.3 driver: radeon Resolution: 1024x768@85.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RC410 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4

My choices were in xrandr

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:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-0 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 355mm x 265mm
   1600x1200      75.0  
   1280x1024      85.0     75.0  
   1024x768       85.0*    75.1  
   800x600        85.1     75.0  
   640x480        85.0     75.0     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

I was getting the 1600x1200 first. Then I tried 1280x1024 next. I settled on 1024x768 out of personal preference.

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# fluxbox startup-script:
#
# Lines starting with a '#' are ignored.
###### Play Startup Sound######
aplay / home/harry/Sounds/disc.wav
#aplay / home/harry/Sounds/hog1.ogg
# You can set your favourite wallpaper here if you don't want
# to do it from your style.
# fbsetbg -l
#
# This sets a black background
# / usr/bin/fbsetroot -solid black

# This shows the fluxbox-splash-screen
# fbsetbg -C /usr/share/fluxbox/splash.jpg

# Other examples. Check man xset for details.
# Turn off beeps:
# xset -b
# Increase the keyboard repeat-rate:
# xset r rate 195 35
# Your own fonts-dir:
# xset +fp ~/.font
#
# Your favourite mouse cursor:
# xsetroot -cursor_name right_ptr
#
# Change your keymap:
# xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
# Use feh to set wallpaper
eval `cat ~/.fehbgfb` & 

# Applications you want to run with fluxbox.
# MAKE SURE THAT APPS THAT KEEP RUNNING HAVE AN ''&'' AT THE END.
#
# unclutter -idle 2 &
# wmnd &
# wmsmixer -w &
 wicd-client -t &
# halevt &

#Wireless Startup rutilt
#rutilt &

# Desktop icons
#idesk &
#pcmanfm -desktop &
#rox --pinboard=antiX-fb #rox --pinboard=antiX-fb #rox --pinboard=antiX-fb #rox --pinboard=antiX-fb #rox --pinboard=antiX-fb #rox --pinboard=antiX-fb rox --pinboard=antiX-fb &

# Run conky regardless of desktop
conky &

# Set live keyboard
#setxkbmap

# Auto-update menu
auto-fluxbox-menu.sh &

# Auto-mount usb devices in rox /media. Do not use with / etc/udev/rules.d/99-usbstorage.rules
# Do not use if you use Thunar or pcmanfm file managers.
#sleep 5 && devmon --exec-on-drive"rox /media" &

volumeicon &
##(sleep 3 && wbar -above-desk -pos bottom) &
sleep 2 && lxpanel &
xrandr -s 1024x768<<<<<<<<look here cousin lucky

# And last but not least we start fluxbox.
# Because it is the last app you have to run it with ''exec'' before it.
exec / usr/bin/fluxbox
# or if you want to keep a log:
# exec / usr/bin/fluxbox -log ~/.fluxbox/log

As you can see by my startup file cuz. I forced 1024x768 using a xrandr -s command in my desktop start file which is in ~/.fluxbox/startup since I am using fluxbox as my desktop.

So run xrandr like I show above. See if 1280x1024 is available already. If so. Just edit your desktop startup file like I did but with the

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xrandr -s 1280x1024

option using antix control center and reboot and see what happens. You can always comment out the xrandr -s edit in startup if it does not work out for you. Hope you understand what I am trying to say here.

cousinlucky · posted: 2012-10-24 00:17

I used the terminal as root and the nvidia settings came up and I changed the resolution to 1280 x 1040 but it still remains at the old setting even when I reboot.

rokytnji · posted: 2012-10-24 00:37

cousinlucky wrote:I used the terminal as root and the nvidia settings came up and I changed the resolution to 1280 x 1040 but it still remains at the old setting even when I reboot.

Should have been 1280x1024 cousin lucky instead of 1280x1040. OOOPs. __{{emoticon}}__