nvidia 6150 using nv

[Bauldrick]

Hi, I trying to get my nvidia card working but am struggling alot. It's stuck at 800x600, here's what Iv'e tried.....

Here is the normal xorg.conf created by dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and that was originally there after upgrade:

http://pastebin.com/m1a724fbc

That there gives me 800x600 and I believe is using nv driver (although I may be wrong)

# grep -i nvidia /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(--) PCI:*(0@0:5:0) nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE] rev 162, Mem @ 0xfc000000/16777216, 0xe0000000/268435456, 0xfb000000/16777216, BIOS @ 0x??/131072
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module 177.70 Wed Aug 27 13:08:31 PDT 2008
(II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2,
(--) NV: Found NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE at 00@00:05:0
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)

So, does that show the 177 driver not loaded?

I then read that just adding Driver {Tab} "nvidia" to device section should sort things. So I gave that a wirl and rebooted (just restartingx makes no difference a gives no mouse pointer). After reboot the login screen comes up as the right resolution (1280x1024), but as soon as I login the Desktop appears for about 4 seconds at about 2600x1200!! and then monitor goes black and says "out of sync range" (or similar).

Then I tried just letting nvidia-xconfig create xorg.conf and reboot, this gives same result as above. Heres the xorg.conf after that.

http://pastebin.com/m5c07bb42

So then I thought to add modes, as it appears the resolution is too high. I added

Modes "1280x1024@60" "1280x960@60" "1024x768@60" "800x600@60" "800x600@56" "640x480@60"

to subsection of section "Screen", still the same result as above >

Anyone more knowledgeable than me look at those and tell me where I'm going wrong.

Thanks alot

[Bauldrick]

Re: nvidia 6150 using nv

This is log from when it booted to high resolution and then moniter said"out of sync" I believe

http://pastebin.com/m3b793f96

[krazy]

Re: nvidia 6150 using nv

I'd try booting into a mode that works, opening the nvidia control panel (nvidia-settings) and setting an appropriate mode in there for your screen.

Then try adding the

Driver  "nvidia"

line and rebooting with the nvidia driver.

I believe that the modern X server and nvidia drivers rely less on xorg.conf and so setting the 'Modes' in xorg.conf is not the best way to go..

[Bauldrick]

Re: nvidia 6150 using nv

# nvidia-settings

You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.

I can only boot when it's using nv, that's shown in the Xorg log I think. When it does boot using nvidia driver the monitor is out of range so the screen is black (like turned off) so I can't set anything

[Bauldrick]

Re: nvidia 6150 using nv

Well it's not fixed, but putting driver "vesa" in there atleast lets me change to decent res.