Nvidia & Twinview Weirdness

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 5/2/06, lostson <lostson at lostsonsvault.org> wrote:
> On 5/2/06, lostson <lostson at lostsonsvault.org> wrote:
>         > Hello
>         >  I am using FC5 with a nvidia gforce 5700xp. I also use
>         twinview and I
>         > use the kmod-nvidia from livna. When setting up my twinview
>         like I have
>         > always done, I keep my xorg.conf from a backup from FC4 and It
>         doesn't
>         > change much. I set it up with my 1280x1024 on both screens and
>         it
>         > launches ok and all. The problem I am having is when going to
>         System -->
>         > Preferences --> Scree Resolution in Gnome it says Im running
>         2560x1024
>         > which is right but the refresh rate says 50 Hz. I don't know
>         why this is
>         > doing this I have set my refresh rates in my xorg.conf it
>         should be 60
>         > Hz. Does anyone know if there is a bug in the Screen
>         Resolution app ? Or
>         > is there something wrong with the nvidia driver or kmod-nvidia
>         module
>         > from livna. The reason I ask is my eyes start to kill me after
>         a hour or
>         > 2 and I have never had this problem before. I could sit here
>         for 12
>         > horus and it would never bother me. So i'm looking for ideas
>         and
>         > thoughts, thanks.
>
>         What does your X log say?
>
>
>         I believe this is the relevant portion

not really.

>
>          (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 8X
>         (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
>         (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce FX 5700
>         Ultra at
>         (--) NVIDIA(0):     PCI:2:0:0:
>         (--) NVIDIA(0):     Samsung SyncMaster (CRT-0)
>         (--) NVIDIA(0):     CRT-1
>         (--) NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (CRT-0): 400 MHz maximum
>         pixel clock
>         (--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-1: 400 MHz maximum pixel clock
>         (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Devices: CRT-0, CRT-1
>         (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
>         (II) NVIDIA(0):     "1280x1024_60.00,1280x1024_60.00"
>         (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 2560 x 1024
>         (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (90, 96); computed from "UseEdidDpi"
>         X config option
>         (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
>
>          Hopefully this helps, I dont think I am getting 60 Hz though ?

Hard to say based on the snippet above.  Start X with the following command:
startx -- -logverbose 5

and then post the full X log.


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