[Nottingham] NVidia cards and Monitor Frequency

[James Holland]

Is there any way you can copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf from a working machine
(with similar graphics hardware)?

2009/11/1 David Aldred <david at familyaldred.org.uk>

> Hi
>
> It's worked on both machines on earlier (k)Ubuntu distros; in fact I think
> it
> was working at one point on 9.04 on the other machine (the kids play Quake
> more than I do, and it goes in and out of fashion in the house!).
>
> David
>
> On Sunday 01 Nov 2009, James Holland wrote:
> > Have you ever got it working on any other distribution?
> >
> > 2009/11/1 David Aldred <david at familyaldred.org.uk>
> >
> > > Evening, all!
> > >
> > > I'm having a spot of bother getting two Linux machines to play nicely
> > > with Quake3....
> > >
> > > The issue is that when I start the game on either machine, the result
> is
> > > a blank monitor screen with a (monitor-generated) message saying "out
> of
> > > frequency".   The only way to restore normality is to go to another
> > > virtual terminal and kill the X-session.
> > >
> > > The OS on the machine in front of me is Kubuntu 9.10; the standard
> > > xorg.conf
> > > file is minimal for this distro.  I'm using the NVidia restricted
> drivers
> > > and
> > > the rewritten xorg.conf is:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> =========================================================================
> > >===== # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
> #
> > > nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister at builder63)  Tue Oct 20
> > > 21:00:15
> > > PDT 2009
> > >
> > >
> > > Section "ServerLayout"
> > >    Identifier     "Layout0"
> > >    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> > >    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> > >    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Files"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "InputDevice"
> > >
> > >    # generated from default
> > >    Identifier     "Mouse0"
> > >    Driver         "mouse"
> > >    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
> > >    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> > >    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> > >    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "InputDevice"
> > >
> > >    # generated from default
> > >    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
> > >    Driver         "kbd"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Monitor"
> > >    Identifier     "Monitor0"
> > >    VendorName     "Unknown"
> > >    ModelName      "Unknown"
> > >    HorizSync       30.0 - 60.0
> > >    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
> > >    Option         "DPMS"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Device"
> > >    Identifier     "Device0"
> > >    Driver         "nvidia"
> > >    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Screen"
> > >    Identifier     "Screen0"
> > >    Device         "Device0"
> > >    Monitor        "Monitor0"
> > >    DefaultDepth    24
> > >    Option         "TwinView" "0"
> > >    Option         "metamodes" "1024x768_75 +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0"
> > >    SubSection     "Display"
> > >        Depth       24
> > >    EndSubSection
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > >
> ========================================================================
> > >
> > > The figures for HorizSync and VertRefresh are both taken from the
> monitor
> > > manual; the monitor's resolution is described in the manual as
> '1024x768
> > > (75Hz)'.
> > >
> > > Of course, I can't tell what error messages may be written to the
> console
> > > as
> > > they are on the console in the X-session I have to kill!
> > >
> > > The second machine is very similar; the only real difference is that's
> > > it's an
> > > older NVidia-based card and it's on Ubuntu 9.04 instead of Kubuntu
> 9.10.
> > >  It's
> > > the same NVidia driver and the same monitor, though.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions most welcome....
> > >
> > > --
> > > David Aldred
> > >
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>
>
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> David Aldred
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