Fedora 10 install issues
John Austin
ja at jaa.org.uk
Mon Dec 1 20:54:15 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 12:19 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> On Saturday 29 November 2008 16:31:29 Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 03:43:37AM -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> > > I'm trying to instal Fedora10 on my new laptop but I've run into a few
> > > issues.
> > >
> > > It's a Dell Precision M6400 - I'm running KDE
> > >
> > > I have 2 issues:
> > >
> > > 1) I cannot get the full screen resolution
> > > I can go to administration --> display and under the 'Hardwae' tab I can
> > > configure the display as a generic or as a Dell 1920x1200 but no matter
> > > what I choose the 'Settings' tab only lets me choose a max of 1400x1050
> >
> > You may need to generate an xorg.conf file. I prefer to install the
> > 'system-config-display' package, and then as root run
> > 'system-config-display --reconfig'. Select your proper monitor from
> > the list. When you're done, edit the 'Modes' line in the "Screen"
> > section to include a mode for your actual resolution.
> >
> > > 2) system notification sound works, and rhythmbox sound works but no
> > > other sound / players work such as amaok or Kaffiene
> >
> > I don't have any real KDE skills so I can't help you with this one.
> > Anyone else?
>
> I installed the nvidia driver like this:
>
> 1) I installed the rpmfusion repos
> 2) I did a yum install kmod-nvidia
> 3) I ran nvidia-xconfig (to generate my xorg.conf file)
>
> Still no luck. - my current xorg.conf file is below
>
> I also tried running system-config-display --reconfig with no change in
> results.
>
>
> I tried adding a Modes section to the Screen section like this:
>
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Videocard0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> Modes "1920x1200"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
> but still no luck. If it matters, I installed CentOS and it immediately (even
> without installing the nvidia drivers) gave me 1920x1200 - not sure if this is
> helpful or not but it confirms that the card actually will run 1920x1200
>
>
> Anyone have any other Ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
>
>
>
> # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
> # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister at builder58) Tue Nov 4 17:18:57
> PST 2008
>
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "single head configuration"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> # generated from default
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # keyboard added by rhpxl
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> ModelName "LCD Panel 1920x1200"
> HorizSync 31.5 - 74.5
> VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0
> Option "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "nvidia"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Videocard0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
Somebody recently mentioned cvt to create a Modeline
Don't know if it might help to put one in
This was just a note to myself about it
Use cvt !!
cvt 1280 1024 75
# 1280x1024 74.90 Hz (CVT 1.31M4) hsync: 80.30 kHz; pclk: 138.75 MHz
Modeline "1280x1024_75.00" 138.75 1280 1368 1504 1728 1024 1027 1034 1072 -hsync +vsync
John
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