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Quadro FX Go 1440 lower resolutions (1920x1200 native, 1440x900 preferred)
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10-11-2016, 10:54 PM
Hi, I have recently installed LL 3.0 on my family's Dell Precision M70 laptop (Intel Pentium M 740) which contains a Quadro FX Go 1440 nvidia card and with the install of latest legacy binary drivers (304...) through install drivers menu I have the option to use the preferred 1440x900 resolution instead of the 1920x1200 which just looks way too small on the screen.  However my issue is that it does not actually set it to 1440x900 where the screen fits the resolution.  Rather it seems the OS is still fully at 1920x1200 but shows only 1440x900 portion of it with the mouse scrolling the rest of the screen as it reaches the edge.  How do I solve this so that the resolution is *actually* 1440x900 without scrolling the screen?
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10-12-2016, 12:21 AM
Try this:

Menu > Favorites > Help Manual.  And then click on the Video Drivers section.  Pay special attention to the portions related to NVIDIA drivers.
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10-12-2016, 04:54 PM
(10-12-2016, 12:21 AM)torreydale link Wrote:  Try this:

Menu > Favorites > Help Manual.  And then click on the Video Drivers section.  Pay special attention to the portions related to NVIDIA drivers.

Thanks for directing me to the manual but I've already checked it over several times; plus I'm not that dumb to not know how to use a resolution selector GUI ???.  It seems that the manual only shows rudimentary basic steps for setting the resolution through nvidia's settings which don't work as intended as I initially stated.

1920x1200: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gzuospgxrs2plt...9.png?dl=0

1440x900: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z2ko85nu32q0wg...7.png?dl=0

The main reason I wish to have the other resolution properly is so that my older family doesn't need to squint to read email and webpages.  I've tried setting fonts bigger etc  but it doesn't work as uniformly as a lower resolution often does same with Windows.
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10-12-2016, 06:40 PM
If you installed the "proprietary, tested" NVIDIA driver using Install Drivers, and setting your resolution using the NVIDIA X Server Settings isn't working, have you tried setting your resolution using Menu > Settings > Display?
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10-12-2016, 11:00 PM
I had tried it prior to using the NVIDIA driver but 1440x900 wasn't even listed at that time and had a pain of a time getting it manually added.  Back then there were other options now it only seems to list 1920x1200 for some reason.
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10-13-2016, 12:08 PM
Can you post the contents of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file please.

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10-13-2016, 03:41 PM
Hi Jerry, I did a fresh wipe of the nvidia drivers to the noveau ones and removed the xorg conf that was there.  Then proceed to go back to Legacy Binary (Proprietary, Tested) version of 304 but there is no xorg.conf after going back to it.  I can past the backups for you though:

Here's backup created automatically yesterday at some point:
Code:
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 361.42  (buildd@lcy01-16)  Tue Apr  5 14:32:56 UTC 2016

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
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"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Seiko/Epson"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 75.0
    VertRefresh     60.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "Quadro FX Go1400"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "Stereo" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0; nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {viewportin=1440x900}; nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {viewportin=1280x1024, viewportout=1500x1200+210+0}; nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {viewportin=1280x720, viewportout=1920x1080+0+60}; nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {viewportin=1024x768, viewportout=1600x1200+160+0}; nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {viewportin=800x600, viewportout=1600x1200+160+0}"
    Option         "SLI" "Off"
    Option         "MultiGPU" "Off"
    Option         "BaseMosaic" "off"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

And here's the one I made right before rolling back to noveau but removed the metamode lines:
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# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 361.42  (buildd@lcy01-16)  Tue Apr  5 14:32:56 UTC 2016


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
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"

    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Seiko/Epson"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 75.0
    VertRefresh     60.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "Quadro FX Go1400"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "Stereo" "0"
    Option         "SLI" "Off"
    Option         "MultiGPU" "Off"
    Option         "BaseMosaic" "off"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection
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10-15-2016, 02:44 AM
Open a terminal, do:

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gksudo nvidia-settings

What resolution options are available?
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10-16-2016, 02:03 AM
What type of cable are you using?
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