Re: toshiba video problem

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>]

Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-02 17:21 (UTC-0400):

> I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509),
> yes p4, 1.25 gb ram.  It should work, and it does except that the
> display is offset to the top and the right.  I have not found any
> reference on the web that shows how to adjust that, although there are
> some before xrandr when xorg.conf was still used, that might have done
> it.  Since then, everything is supposed to be automatic and simply
> work.  No workee.
 
> I suspect it is a video driver issue, but there doesn't seem to be a
> source for the NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX Go5200, not even from nvidia.  I
> did find a good online source for the original toshiba laptop drivers
> but they are for win xp, nothing for linux.
 
> Is there some way to fix this?  Am I asking in the right place?
 
Based upon my desktop FX 5200 here your 5200 ought to work optimally
without any proprietary driver, with no graphics configs required in
/etc/X11/xorg.con*, and no need for xrandr:

# inxi -Smyz
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.0-13-686 arch: i686 bits: 32 Desktop: Trinity
    Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Memory:
  RAM: total: 1.47 GiB used: 313.7 MiB (20.8%)
  Array-1: capacity: 4 GiB slots: 4 EC: None
  Device-1: DIMM_1 size: 256 MiB speed: 400 MT/s
  Device-2: DIMM_2 size: 256 MiB speed: 400 MT/s
  Device-3: DIMM_3 size: 512 MiB speed: 400 MT/s
  Device-4: DIMM_4 size: 512 MiB speed: 400 MT/s
# inxi -Gayz
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] driver: nouveau v: kernel ports:
    active: VGA-1 empty: DVI-I-1,TV-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0322
    class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: nouveau
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1680x1050 s-dpi: 108 s-size: 395x246mm (15.55x9.69")
    s-diag: 465mm (18.32")
  Monitor-1: VGA-1 model: Lenovo L2251x Wide serial: <filter> built: 2011
    res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 90 gamma: 1.2 size: 474x296mm (18.66x11.65")
    diag: 559mm (22") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1680x1050 min: 720x400
  OpenGL: renderer: NV34 v: 1.5 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
# xrandr | egrep 'onnect|creen|\*' | grep -v disconn | sort -r
VGA-1 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 474mm x 296mm
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 4096 x 4096
   1680x1050     59.97*+  74.89
#

Do you have both nouveau drivers loaded, kernel>device and X>display,
as seen in output above from mine? Is there more than one line with (EE)
in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
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