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