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Re: toshiba video problem



On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 01:00:02 +0200, Felix Miata
<mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:

>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]
]
That is the desktop version.  Mine is built into my toshiba laptop.
Go5200 is the laptop version.  Nvidia seems to use Go a lot to
distinguish the difference between desk and lap and, they do take
different drivers.

 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?
-- 
Noah Sombrero


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