Since February I've got a problem with my FreeBSD box that I couldn't address properly then for lack of time. I do believe that started after an upgrade on the nvidia-drivers but, for the life of me, I can't be 100% sure.
In a nutshell, each time I
What I've found in the Xorg.O.log, when starting X with both nvidia and vesa drivers:
And only with the nvidia driver:
What I've tried so far (not particularly in that order):
Now, some things I've found while trying to solve my problem that might be related:
As for the related hardware:
I'm tempted to conclude that the nvidia driver can't detect properly the display modes available; but I can't make sense as for why?
Let me know if there's some other piece of information needed.
In a nutshell, each time I
$ startx
with my usual user, the window manager opens with a 640x480 screen resolution, with no way to set it at 1680x1050 as the screen/graphic card combo should normally permit it. This being observed whether the window manager used is xfce or fluxbox.
Code:
FreeBSD enki.noway.out 8.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Mon Jul 12 20:55:11 UTC 2010
root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
What I've found in the Xorg.O.log, when starting X with both nvidia and vesa drivers:
Code:
(WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support
And only with the nvidia driver:
Code:
(WW) May 15 10:24:37 NVIDIA(GPU-0): The EDID read for display device DFP-1 is invalid: the
(WW) May 15 10:24:37 NVIDIA(GPU-0): checksum for EDID version 1 is invalid.
.../...
(==) May 15 10:24:37 NVIDIA(0): No modes were requested; the default mode "nvidia-auto-select"
(==) May 15 10:24:37 NVIDIA(0): will be used as the requested mode.
(==) May 15 10:24:37 NVIDIA(0):
(II) May 15 10:24:37 NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) May 15 10:24:37 NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select"
(II) May 15 10:24:37 NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 640 x 480
(WW) May 15 10:24:37 NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device DFP-1's EDID; cannot compute DPI
(WW) May 15 10:24:37 NVIDIA(0): from DFP-1's EDID.
What I've tried so far (not particularly in that order):
- reinstall the nvidia drivers
# make deinstall clean
and# make install clean
with no results on this front whatsoever. - generating new xorg.conf with
# Xorg -configure
,# nvidia-xconfig
or both doesn't change a thing either. $ startx
using the vesa driver. Now, that was interesting because the window manager did start with the expected resolution (1680x1050) but the desktop was out of the screen boundaries (with a black margin at the top).- expliciting the mode in the Screen -> Display SubSection in the xorg.conf in vain :
Code:
Modes "1680x1050"
Now, some things I've found while trying to solve my problem that might be related:
Code:
$ nvidia-settings --glxinfo
ERROR : Cannot open display ''.
Code:
$ echo $DISPLAY
$ su root
# echo $DISPLAY
DISPLAY: Undefined variable
As for the related hardware:
- graphic card : Nvidia GTX 260
- Monitor : Viewsonic vg2230wm (plugged via DVI)
I'm tempted to conclude that the nvidia driver can't detect properly the display modes available; but I can't make sense as for why?
Let me know if there's some other piece of information needed.