Like so many I tried to install the Nvidia drivers and failed along the way. I will try to be as complete as possible, but don't hesitate to react if I'm leaving important information out.
So first things first, my host computer specs :
ASUS K93S
18.4-inch 1920 x 1080 LED-backlight display
intel core i7 2630qm 2ghz
1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M graphics card
16GB DDR3 RAM
Different steps I took :
1. Driver download
I downloaded the corresponding driver at this site. Filling in the form resulted in the download of NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-285.05.09.run
2. Driver installation
I installed the driver without a problem by using the command "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-285.05.09.run"
3. Startx attempt 1
Ran startx and got the error that no devices were connected. This was apparantly due to another internal vga card that was set as primary card.
Altered the xorg.conf file with the line BusID "PCI:1:0:0" (which fixed the problem)
4. Startx attempt 2
Ran startx and got the error that no displays were connected to the graphical card and resulted in the error message "Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration".
Tried to fix is with altering modes, resolutions, without succes. After a while a came across this link which made me believe that for some reason the software could not detect the current EDID
5. Created EDID file
ran the command "get-edid > testedid" and checked the content by using the command "parse-edid < testedid" (see results later in this post).
Altered the xorg.conf with following lines in the device section :
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0"
Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/testedid"
6. Startx attempt 3 (wel in reality it was actualy more or less attempt 876 ;))
Ran startx and got a black screen. The /var/log/Xorg.0.log (see later in this post) shows no real errors for as far as I can see.
7. Current situation
I guess I'm pretty stuck for the moment so any help would be appreciated. At this point I have no clue on how to fix this, so I guess it is time for a cold beer (maybe tomorrow I will see the light (although I doubt it)).
Additional information :
root@bt:/etc/X11# lspci | grep VGA
Quote: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0df4 (rev a1) root@bt:/etc/X11# parse-edid < testedid
Quote: parse-edid: parse-edid version 2.0.0
parse-edid: EDID checksum passed.
# EDID version 1 revision 3
Section "Monitor"
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
Identifier "CMO:0718"
VendorName "CMO"
ModelName "CMO:0718"
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
# DPMS capabilities: Active off:no Suspend:no Standby:no
Mode "1920x1080" # vfreq 59.999Hz, hfreq 66.659kHz
DotClock 138.650000
HTimings 1920 1968 2000 2080
VTimings 1080 1083 1088 1111
Flags "-HSync" "-VSync"
EndMode
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
EndSection root@bt:/etc/X11# cat xorg.conf
Quote: # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 280.13 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-03.nvidia.com) Wed Jul 27 17:15:58 PDT 2011
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0"
Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/testedid"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection Xorg.log0
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I hope this will give somebody an insight into what is going on.
Kind regards,
Ronny
Hi,
I clearly needed a drink yesterday (not noticing the fallback to the default vesa drivers :eek:)).
The command "lspci -nn @ grep VGA" gave me an identifier of 10de:0df4 which is nowhere listed in /usr/share/xserver-xorg/pci/*.ids
Don't know yet why, but will try to figure this out tomorrow.
If you have any thoughts, just let me know (cause I can use the help).
To be continued ... File allegati
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