Re: I can't change monitor resolution in gnome
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 19:11:25 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:20:46 -0700 Tyler MacDonald dijo:
>
> > Reconfigure the "xserver-xorg" package ("dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" in a
> > terminal as root); the defaults should be what you're currently configured
> > for. When you get to the monitor configuration page, try auto-detection; if
> > that doesnt give you what you want, break out your monitor's manual and
> > enter the sync rates, etc manually. At the end of the monitor configuration,
> > you should get a list of video modes; check off all the ones you want to
> > use, restart GDM, and hope for the best. :-)
>
> I have a similar problem with a brand new install of Etch right after
> it went final. Previously I have used Fedora 7 and CentOS 5, both of
> which detected the nVidia GeForce 6100 video on the motherboard and
> autoconfigured it. They even found the Viewsonic Graphics Series G90f
> monitor. However, Ubuntu Feisty and Etch set me up only with Vesa 1024
> x 768. All versions are 64-bit, on a brand new computer.
>
> I tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and told it to autodetect the
> hardware. I knew it wouldn't find it because it didn't find it when I
> installed Etch a couple days ago. Nevertheless, I gave it a shot. The
> error message is:
>
> "No X server known for your video hardware
> There is either no video hardware installed on this machine (e.g.
> serial console only), or the "discover" program was unable to determine
> which x server is appropriate for the video hardware. This could be due
> to incomplete information in discover's hardware database, or because
> your video hardware is not supported by the available X servers."
>
> Well, clearly drivers exist and it should be working. In fact, I think
> Fedora and CentOS both just used the nv driver. I'm guessing the
> problem is "discover's hardware database." It also appears it is a
> Debian issue, since the two distros that did find and autoconfigure the
> video were RPM based distros, and the other one that did not was
> Ubuntu, based on Debian.
As far as I know, Fedora and CentOS use a different mechanism for
hardware detection. ("kudzu"?)
> Is there a way to update discover's database?
Why bother? Just change "vesa" to "nv" in the "Device" section of your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart X. If the Debian version of the driver
supports your card then it will work, and if does not work then the
content of discover's database will not change that.
> I might add that the nVidia sound does not work. Dmesg lists it as:
> nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio Rev a2. So Etch sees it,
> it just failed to get it to work. It did work perfectly with the other
> three distros I tried, including Ubuntu. Another database to update?
What happens if you do "modprobe snd_hda_intel" (as root)? What is the
output of "cat /dev/sndstat"?
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