Re: Squeeze. Broken native laptop screen res 1366x768@NVIDIA after last update

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 03/20/2011 04:11 PM, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Andrei Popescu
> <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > On Du, 20 mar 11, 23:05:13, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
> > > Hello, list!
> > >
> > > After last update the native laptop screen res 1366x768 is gone.
> > >
> > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce
> > > GT 240M] (rev a2)
> > >
> > > # xdpyinfo
> > > ...
> > > screen #0:
> > >   dimensions:    1280x720 pixels (339x191 millimeters)
> > >   resolution:    96x96 dots per inch
> > >   depths (7):    24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
> > > ...
> > > # xrandr -q
> > > xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
> > > Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1280 x 720, maximum 1280 x 720
> > > default connected 1280x720+0+0 0mm x 0mm
> > >    1280x720        0.0*
> > >    800x600        61.0
> > >    640x480        60.0
> > >
> > > $ xrandr -s 1366x768
> > > Size 1366x768 not found in available modes
> >
> > You don't need that monster keep only
> >
> > > Section "Device"
> > >     Identifier     "Device0"
> > >     Driver         "nvidia"
> > > EndSection
>
> Does it matter if I have compiz with all that XF86Config?
>
> > [snip]
> >
> > > The cause of a failure probably is a fault to load NVIDIA driver.
> > > I have re-installed everything about NVIDIA – no positive results achieved.
> >
> > Please attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> Thanks for your time and effort!
> I am googling but nothing looks helpful.

(You shouldn't have tarred the log file.  Just gzipped it.)

Try (as root) re-running nvidia-settings and then rebooting.

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