Screen Resolution 640x480 ??

[Ben Hacker Jr]

Hello,

I am running: v1.5

%uname -a
FreeBSD pcbsd 6.3-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 #6: Fri Apr 11 13:03:49 EDT 2008     root@pcbsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PCBSD  i386

Everything seemed fine regarding screen resolution.. then.. after a time (I do dual boot) I boot up into PCBSD and screen resolution just drops to 640x480.

pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
nvidia0: <Unknown> mem 0xf1000000-0xf1ffffff,0xe0000000-0xefffffff,0xf2000000-0xf2ffffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci1
nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]

My resolution was set to 1280x960 and it was fine.. My usual fix is to go back into the install time video setup and reset resolution and nvidia driver, but that is not working this time..

xorg.conf says 1024x768 but KDE will only allow 640x480 or 320x... so.. not sure if this is Xorg issue or KDE config issue...

well.. must be xorg because.. now even if I change resolution during graphic card config utility.. resolution will NOT change during the test. Stays at some small resolution.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Monitor is Dell m/n: M-991

%cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# Xorg.conf file generated for PC-BSD

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/local/lib/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath      "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/Programs/fonts/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "ddc"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "xtrap"
    Load           "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
    Option         "Buttons" "6"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option      "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Generic Monitor"
    ModelName      "Generic"
EndSection


Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: [i]: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        Option     "HWcursor"           "True"  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # [i]
        #Option     "FlatPanel"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPDither"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CrtcNumber"                # [i]
        #Option     "FPScale"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPTweak"                   # [i]
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "DamageEvents" "True"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth   24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth      24
        Modes      "1280x960"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

[TerryP]

I would say first update to 1.5.1+updates and try again, then assuming that th e KDE Display Settings won't allow you to change to a higher resolution; try adding a modeline to your xorg.conf, save the file, and restart X with the tree finger salute (e.g. control+alt+backspace).

[Ben Hacker Jr]

Thanks for the reply..

I attempted to determine Monitor settings and create/apply "modelines" but was not able to get this configured..

In the mean time. Since I had determined the correct settings for my Monitor.. and during the process of resetting the monitor settings [Display Settings] window.. I noticed the "Advanced" tab [Manual: 2.2.2 Display Settings] and added the horizontal and vertical frequencies.

After this change the system accepted my resolution settings just fine and things are back to normal.. (a bit better in fact)

Now I wait to see if it holds the configuration. Usually would hold the settings between few days to 2 weeks.. then will revert back to 640x480.

Thanks again.. I am betting this resolved the issue..