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nVidia Drivers
Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 00:01
by edge226
I've done a fresh install a couple times and have been trying to get the nVidia drivers working. I installed them and added the nvidia module to the porteus/optional and added vga-detect to my /boot/porteus.cfg, It seems to fail upon doing the nVidia driver and unloads it then falls back to the default driver. however once I ran nvidia-xconfig as root as I would do on practically any distribution. I then recieve a No Server error message in a loop.
Re: nVidia Drivers
Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 02:02
by brokenman
Can you please supply some system specs, and which nvidia module you chose to download.
Re: nVidia Drivers
Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 06:08
by edge226
i5 2500k, 6gb ram, asus p8p67-m pro motherboard, Asus gt-440. Installed to a 16GB USB 3.0 Corsair Voyager Flash drive. and I used ext4 as my filesystem.
Nvidia module :
http://ponce.cc/porteus/x86_64/current/ ... -2beny.xzm
Re: nVidia Drivers
Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 08:24
by fanthom
hello edge226,
i5 2500k + Asus gt-440 means that this is dual GPU system which currently is not supported by 'vga-detect'. as per /boot/docs/cheatcodes.txt:
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Note that this cheatcode may not perform as expected if you have
a dual-graphics card setup.
(wish i own that hw setup to dig more into it)
despite of that we may try to get your PC working with nVidia driver without 'vga-detect' cheat. please upload output of 'lspci -knn' and 'lsmod' commands, also /var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log to pastebin.com (can be all in one file) and link here for review.
Re: nVidia Drivers
Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 08:35
by Hamza
It's strange, we have more problems with nVidia Cards than ATI ones.
Re: nVidia Drivers
Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 09:46
by edge226
Okay, I accidentally was using the 1.2rc1 disc, I changed to the 1.1 discs and now have both 32 and 64 bit working with Nvidia drivers. However it says that my resolution is 1360x768 on both, it looks as if my resolution is either off or the DPI is off. I have ran nvidia-xconfig which often fixes these issues.
Re: nVidia Drivers
Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 09:49
by Hamza
So, this thread should be marked as solved by following this rule
8. If your problem has been solved, please add the [Solved] tag to tittle of the thread. It will make it easier to search the forum for working solutions.
Thanks!
Re: nVidia Drivers
Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 09:51
by edge226
My drivers are still not working properly so the issue is not solved yet, however nearing solution.
how do I change my DPI? I am sure 215 x 217 dpi for the xserver is incorrect.
hmmm, I checked my other linux distro and the dpi is also 215 x 217. Yet it seems like I have at best a 600x480 or 800x600 resolution...
going to test if nomodeset helps with this, Ill report back with the result
still not resolved, I wonder if it is a KDE or LXDE setting making all the text huge...
Re: nVidia Drivers
Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 10:28
by Hamza
Maybe a tweak in xorg.conf file..will need to wait on fanthom for that
[solved] nVidia Drivers + DPI issues
Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 10:55
by edge226
I ended up finding the DPI setting, it was a kde system setting under Application Appearance, Then fonts, Force fonts DPI - Disabled. This needed to be changed to 96 DPI.
Re: nVidia Drivers
Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 11:03
by Hamza
You had solved the issue yourself for KDE but what about other DE like LXDE ? For you, this issue has been solved but it has not been solved entirely because other DE don't contain the KDE System manager to disable the "force fonts" setting.
Re: nVidia Drivers
Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 14:50
by edge226
You are correct sir, that fixes things for KDE but not LXDE. well it does but it is not a permanent fix. If I set the setting and then log out and back in the setting is maintained. However it is not maintained upon boot.
Re: nVidia Drivers
Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 15:03
by fanthom
@edge226
please save this config as /mnt/sdXY/porteus/rootcopy/etc/X11/xorg.conf and boot in 'Always Fresh' mode (to skip your old settings)
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "UseEdidDpi" "False"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
let me know if fonts looks ok (KDE/LXDE) when you boot with nVidia driver.
if yes then i'll update all nVidia drivers on the server with new config.
Re: nVidia Drivers
Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 15:20
by Ahau
I have the same large font issue with nvidia drivers; adding this:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "UseEdidDpi" "False"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
EndSection
resolves the text size in all three DE's. Thanks!
[solved] nVidia Drivers
Posted: 29 Feb 2012, 20:38
by edge226
Simply adding
Option "UseEdidDpi" "False"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
to my xorg.conf fixed this issue, Thank you.