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Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:45 AM, allene222
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:nabble@oldpaloalto.com">nabble@oldpaloalto.com</a>>
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Thanks to everyone for the replies. (Not sure why they don't show up in<br>
nabble where I posted the original message).<br>
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I now have a totally messed up system.<br>
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Here is what I did:<br>
1) sudo apt-get install envy ---> didn't work, could not find envy<br>
2) Downloaded envy from web page <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html" target="_blank">albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html</a><br>
3) Ran envy from applications tab<br>
4) Installed nvidia<br>
5) restarted computer<br>
6) Computer now in low graphics mode<br>
7) Configured for my monitor NEC 1760v<br>
8) Selected 1280x1024 resolution<br>
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Screen is now in some virtual mode where I need to scroll to see the
entire<br>
desktop. It looks like a 1280x1024 desktop on a 640x480 screen.</blockquote>
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<div>The configuration file for your Xserver is /etc/X11/xorg.con</div>
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<div>Check in there. There are options for screen size (modes) and
desktop size. I'm not sure of the specific settings to control the
viewport size vs the resolution but they're in that file. Otherwise,
check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for information on what the Xserver is doing
when it starts up. You might be able to glean some information there
as well. Don't even bother with Myth until you fix this.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div>
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Occasionally when I have totally messed up my xorg.conf file I will
just go to /etc/X11 and backup my xorg.conf file. Then you can delete
the original and run nvidia-xconfig to produce a working file. That is
nvidia's tool for creating xorg.conf files with the nvidia proprietary
drivers. Check out its man page and you can even supply some options to
let it know if there are any special features of the nvidia driver you
want to ensure are enabled. This will usually at least get you a
working set up. Then you can go look at you backed up file and copy and
paste if there is anything there that you need (which there probably
isn't).<br>
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