[clug-talk] Screen resolution issues

[Hendrik Schaink]

The NVidia Vanta/Vanta LT was  dropped from the unified NVidia driver
package. Instead, you are advised to use the Nvidia-Legacy driver for
this card.

See comments to that effect about half-way down this article:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-75074-p-7.html
Hint: search for "vanta" in this article.

HTH, Hendrik


Dan Mueller wrote:
> PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR THE ANSWERS FOR THE QUESTIONS YOU HAD TO TRY TO RESOLVE
> THE RESOLUTION ISSUES.
> 
> 
> 
> THANX 
> DAN
> 
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> Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 17:15:06 -0600
> From: Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca>
> Subject: Re: [clug-talk] screen resolution on ibm 1.8 gig
> To: CLUG General <clug-talk at clug.ca>
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> Dan Mueller wrote:
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>> On 7 May, 2009 10:11:59 am Dan Mueller wrote:
>>> More questions.  Ive got a ibm 1.8 ghz pc that im running Linux
>>> mint on
>> and
>>> cant get the screen resolution to be more than 800x600   ive done
>>> all that I know to do. Any suggestions??
>>>
>> Not enough information here to go by......
>>
>> Which version of Linux Mint?   VERSION IS 6.0 FELICIA
> 
> I am guessing that this is latest version?  Do you happen to know if
> Linux Mint uses Gnome or KDE as the user interface?  Would you also
> happen to know which version?
>> What video card?   AS BEST AS I CAN TELL, NVIDIA VANTA (ibm)
>>
> lspci |grep -i vga
> 
> HERE'S WHAT CAME BACK......
> VGA COMPATIBLE CONTROLER: NVIDIA CORPORATION NV6 [VANTA/VANTA LT] (REV 15)
> 
> Should return something similar to the following:
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series
> Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
> 
>> What resolution can your monitor do?  WELL ABOVE 1024X768.  THIS IS
>> ALL I NEED
> 
> Is this a CRT (giant tube based thing) or an LCD monitor?  If it is a
> CRT how old is it?
> 
> ITS AN LCD ABOUT 2 YEARS OLD
> 
> - From the command line (bring up xterm, konsole, gterm, or any other
> terminal.  Type "xrandr" to see all the supported modes.
> 
> On my laptop, the output of xrandr looks like this:
> $ xrandr
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 900, maximum 2720 x 900
> VGA disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> LVDS connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> 304mm x 190mm
>    1440x900       60.2*+   59.9     40.2
>    1360x768       59.8
>    1152x864       60.0
>    1024x768       60.0
>    800x600        60.3     56.2
>    640x480        59.9
> HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> TV disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis
> 
> THE HIGHEST IN XRANDR IS 800X600  THE LOWEST IS 320X240
> 
> 
>> What is "all that I know how to do"? I.e. what have you done so far?
>> JUST PLUGGED AROUND IN THE SCREEN RESOLUTION SECTION OF WHAT COMES
>> WITH THE CD ROM AND LOOKED IN SYNAPTIC IF THERE WAS ANYTHING THERE.
>>
> Synaptic is the wrong place to look.  Most modern Linux distributions
> will automatically install the correct drivers.  The vanta is quite old
> so this may be the problem.
> 
>> I've seen this limitation when I've done a clean installs, or any
>> install that overwrites /etc/xorg.conf ; In the old days, the
>> installer asked you to input the capabilities of your monitor and
>> video card, but now they rely on autodetection, which won't work if
>> the card or monitor doesn't supply the information. In that case the
>> installer sets the video parameters to a lowest- common-denominator
>> "safe" setting.
>>
>> What driver is your /etc/xorg.conf using (should show in the "device"
>>  section)?
> 
> I LOOKED IN THE DEVICE SECTION AND CANT FIGURE OUT HOW TO TELL WHAT DRIVER.
> WHAT CAN I USE ON COMMAND LINE??
> 
> 
> 
>> Does it match the video card? AS BEST AS I CAN TELL THAT THERE ARE NO
>>  SPECIAL DRIVERS USED.  I WENT INTO THE /ETC FILE AND I DON'T SEE A
>> FILE CALLED XORG??
>>
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> 
> ON THIS COMMAND WHAT CAME BACK WAS NO SUCH FILE OR DIRECTORY.
> 
> AS FOR WETHER ITS KDE OR GNOME... HOW DO I TELL??
> 
> 
> 
> Most recent versions of the distros I see do not really modify this file
> anymore.  Both KDE and Gnome have very capable GUI driven control panel
> widgets for controlling the resolution.  FYI the GUI widgets are now
> just front ends to the xrandr command line utility.
> 
> Of course all of the above is moot if Linux Mint is using older versions
> of Xorg.  I have no idea how current this distro is.  I have never
> actually seen Mint in action.
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