From caedd92eef8fe47c3925c12d8e81be911556b38b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Willemsen Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:16:41 +0100 Subject: Update files --- ...n_fedora_11_with_proprietary_nvidia_drivers.org | 48 ---------------------- 1 file changed, 48 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 site/blog/higher_resolution_in_fedora_11_with_proprietary_nvidia_drivers.org (limited to 'site/blog/higher_resolution_in_fedora_11_with_proprietary_nvidia_drivers.org') diff --git a/site/blog/higher_resolution_in_fedora_11_with_proprietary_nvidia_drivers.org b/site/blog/higher_resolution_in_fedora_11_with_proprietary_nvidia_drivers.org deleted file mode 100644 index eafeaee..0000000 --- a/site/blog/higher_resolution_in_fedora_11_with_proprietary_nvidia_drivers.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,48 +0,0 @@ -#+TITLE: Higher Resolution in Fedora 11 with proprietary NVidia Drivers -#+DATE: 2009-09-22 23:51 -#+TAGS: fedora nvidia xorg - -Ugh... I have been screwing around with this since the beginning of -time... Or at least since I installed Fedora for the so-manieth -time. Finally though I found out what I had to do. - -Following [[http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752][this guide]], I was able to easily and correctly install the -drivers. I used to build them myself, but that got me worse results -then anything. - -To sum up, though: - -#+BEGIN_SRC sh - # switch to super user (root) - su - - # install rpmfusion repository - rpm -Uvh \ - http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm \ - http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm - - # install the driver (I have an i686 pc, you might need a different architecture, like 64_32 or something similar) - yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 - - # reboot to make changed take effect - reboot -#+END_SRC - -This only got me a 1024x768 resolution, though... Which pissed me off... - -I started looking around the internet for a way to fix it in the -~xorg.conf~ itself, which I'd done on Fedora 9 before, but didn't -remember how (the reason I'm writing this right now), but didn't -actually find what I was looking for. - -In the end I found 2 supposed fixes, one added a Modes option to the -=Display= section of the =Screen= section, and another was to add a -=DisplaySize= option to the =Monitor= section. - -Well, I found out I needed both, so I added =DisplaySize 1280 1024= to -the =Monitor= section and =Modes "1280x1024"= to the ~Display~ subsection -of the ~Screen~ section. - -Now it's working again, running at 1280x1024 with screen compositing -(so I can run ~gnome-do~ with docky theme, which I'm trying out for a -while). -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf