Re: Problem with Toshiba 5105 laptop, kernel-2.6.4 and nvidia driver 1.0-5336.

[Ralph Crongeyer <ralph@crongeyer.com>]

Hey Chris,

Thanks, I didn't know that the 2.6 kernel uses /etc/modprobe.conf.

But that still doesn't work.

I think that it's a driver problem because:
> > Even if I exit out of the GUI and stop x, and kdm and "rmmod nvidia" to
> > unload the module and then reload it with:
> > "modprobe nvidia NVreg_SoftEDIDs=0 NVreg_Mobile=2"
> > to insure that the options are loaded, and then restart kdm and x it has
> > no effect, the 1/4 inch gap is still there?

So I've written to linux-bugs@nvidia.com to ask them for help. 

Thanks for the info.

Ralph

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 01:00 pm, CW Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:22:23PM -0500, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm having this problem with Toshiba 5105 laptop, kernel-2.6.4 and nvidia
> > driver 1.0-5336. There is about a 1/4 inch gap of the screen not being
> > used on the right hand side of the screen running vertically. I used to
> > be able to fix this problem (with kernel-2.4.x) by editing my
> > "/etc/modules.conf" file with this:
>
> 2.6 no longer uses modules.conf, it instead uses /etc/modprobe.conf (man
> modprobe modprobe.conf).  Try putting your settings in there.
>
> > options nvidia NVreg_SoftEDIDs=0 NVreg_Mobile=2
> > alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia
> >
> > But now this has no effect? (I'm using Debian "SID" with kernel-2.6.4).
> > Even if I exit out of the GUI and stop x, and kdm and "rmmod nvidia" to
> > unload the module and then reload it with:
> > "modprobe nvidia NVreg_SoftEDIDs=0 NVreg_Mobile=2"
> > to insure that the options are loaded, and then restart kdm and x it has
> > no effect, the 1/4 inch gap is still there?
> >
> > How can I fix this?
> >
> > Ralph
>
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>
> Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
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