VectorLinux
The nuts and bolts => Portable VL => Topic started by: gacl on July 21, 2010, 02:05:36 pm
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Hello,
According to the manual the card for this computer is an NVidia GeForce 8400M GS 64-bit. The native resolutions are 1280 x 800, 1440 x 900, 1680 x 1050, and 1920 x 1200.
I tried to install the proprietary drivers but I always get this error: "There was an error in your X configuration. Autoconfig must have stumbled somewhere. Please choose one of the following actions."
The open source NVidia driver (nv) works the best because it at least supports the lowest of the native resolutions but if I visit certain pages like slackware.com the content is garbled. It also seems slow overall.
The vesa driver doesn't support the native resolutions. I'm not sure if I got the fbdev driver to work, but if I did it didn't support the native resolutions either.
What to do?
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As for the scrambing problem with open-source drivers, it comes up so often I've bookmarked it.
http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=11396.0 (http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=11396.0)
There's also a thread, perhaps a howto, on installing the proprietary driver, but I don't have it handy.
A little while later . . .
I hate it when I get curious, but should be sleeping. An nvidia install video: http://www.opensourcebistro.com/Tutorial/VL60/01.Installation/nvidia/nvidia.htm (http://www.opensourcebistro.com/Tutorial/VL60/01.Installation/nvidia/nvidia.htm). Opensourcebistro is a very, very good address to have.
Instead of "init 3" for command line, substitute "init 2". For X, substitute "init 4" for "init 5". 2 and 4 are "desktop", 3 and 5 "server".
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Wow. I just installed the NVidia drivers and it was _very_ easy. Thank you sixforty.
Now, how do I get it to display a higher resolution?
xrandr:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 800
default connected 1280x800+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1280x800 50.0*
1024x768 51.0 55.0
800x600 52.0 57.0 58.0 59.0 60.0
640x480 53.0 66.0 67.0 68.0 69.0
1152x768 54.0
832x624 56.0
800x512 61.0
720x400 62.0
700x525 63.0
640x512 64.0 65.0
640x400 70.0
640x350 71.0
576x432 72.0
576x384 73.0
512x384 74.0 75.0 76.0 77.0 78.0
416x312 79.0
400x300 80.0 81.0 82.0 83.0 84.0
360x200 85.0
320x240 86.0 87.0 88.0 89.0
320x200 90.0
320x175 91.0
xorg.conf ("Screen" section):
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "USEdidDPI" "false"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
### Available Driver options are:-
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
Modes "1440x900" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
Modes "1440x900" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
Modes "1440x900" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
Modes "1440x900" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1440x900" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "on"
EndSection
Thanks again.
Gus
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@delmettfd:
Highly integrated devices like laptops are built with very limited upgrade possibilities. Normally, only RAM and storage drives are upgradeable.
Your best option is to install the proprietary NVIDIA legacy driver, it will extract the most performance from the hardware.