|
Georgetoon
|
 |
« on: November 29, 2011, 07:25:09 PM » |
|
This evening when I arrived home, I turned on my PCLinuxOS system and it came up with 640 x 480 resolution. I did a restart.
The same thing happened again. 640 x 480.
I went into PCC and checked the video card set up. For some reason Nvidea was not selected. So, I selected "NVidia GeForce 6100 to GeForce 360." I did a restart and again, up came 640 x 480. The control panel gave no higher resolution.
I did a complete shut down and start up. Things finally came up at the proper resolution of 1680 x 1050.
I double checked my video card and it's an Nvidia G96 (GeForce 9400 GT).
Am I running the correct drivers? Pretty sure I am.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Toonfully,
Mark
-----------
Lenovo 14" ThinkPad Edge (0578F5U) with Core i3 Processor(i3-370M) 2.40 GHz 4GB RAM
Acer Aspire 9300 Laptop
Desktop Icy Dock system with AMD PHENOM X4 QUADCORE 9650 2.3GHZ 4MB L1 , NVidia GEFORCE 9400GT 1GB 2X DVI PCIE graphics card, 22" Chimei monitor.
|
|
|
Archie
Global Moderator
Hero Member
 Offline
Posts: 6854
I will never forget you, uhhh...
|
|
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2011, 07:37:55 PM » |
|
@Mark, you'll need to relogin (or better, reboot) when you select new drivers for your video or sound. The changes don't just take effect on the fly.
As for whether it is the correct driver, there should be an indication on the package as to what range of cards it would support so it is best that you check there.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Georgetoon
|
|
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2011, 08:47:03 PM » |
|
@Mark, you'll need to relogin (or better, reboot) when you select new drivers for your video or sound. The changes don't just take effect on the fly.
As for whether it is the correct driver, there should be an indication on the package as to what range of cards it would support so it is best that you check there.
Yes. I did a reboot (restart) each time. It was when I did a complete shut down and then powered up that things took hold correctly. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Toonfully,
Mark
-----------
Lenovo 14" ThinkPad Edge (0578F5U) with Core i3 Processor(i3-370M) 2.40 GHz 4GB RAM
Acer Aspire 9300 Laptop
Desktop Icy Dock system with AMD PHENOM X4 QUADCORE 9650 2.3GHZ 4MB L1 , NVidia GEFORCE 9400GT 1GB 2X DVI PCIE graphics card, 22" Chimei monitor.
|
|
|
|
kjpetrie
|
|
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2011, 06:59:23 AM » |
|
Sounds as if the GPU was in a strange state that prevented it working properly. Powering off reset it.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
-----------
KJP
-----------------------------------------------------------
PClos 2010 on Intel D945GCLF2 motherboard (Atom 330), 2GB DDR2 RAM, Maxtor STM325031, Hitachi CDR-7930, HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N, Amilo LSL 3220T monitor. Also Acer 5810TG and Asus eeePC 2G surf
|
|
|
demilord
Full Member
Offline
Posts: 224
Windows not supported
|
|
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2011, 12:27:41 PM » |
|
@Mark, you'll need to relogin (or better, reboot) when you select new drivers for your video or sound. The changes don't just take effect on the fly.
As for whether it is the correct driver, there should be an indication on the package as to what range of cards it would support so it is best that you check there.
CTRL + ALT+ Backspace should be enough, to restart the XServer |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Office required Windows XP or better, so I installed PCLinuxOS  |
|
|
|
Georgetoon
|
|
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2011, 12:36:19 PM » |
|
@Mark, you'll need to relogin (or better, reboot) when you select new drivers for your video or sound. The changes don't just take effect on the fly.
As for whether it is the correct driver, there should be an indication on the package as to what range of cards it would support so it is best that you check there.
CTRL + ALT+ Backspace should be enough, to restart the XServer Thanks, guys.  So far, it's been humming right along. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Toonfully,
Mark
-----------
Lenovo 14" ThinkPad Edge (0578F5U) with Core i3 Processor(i3-370M) 2.40 GHz 4GB RAM
Acer Aspire 9300 Laptop
Desktop Icy Dock system with AMD PHENOM X4 QUADCORE 9650 2.3GHZ 4MB L1 , NVidia GEFORCE 9400GT 1GB 2X DVI PCIE graphics card, 22" Chimei monitor.
|
|
|
|
pags
|
|
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2011, 02:16:06 PM » |
|
Weird things can happen. When you did your "complete" shutdown, did that include the monitor? Perhaps the system was having a problem reading the EDID from it? If so, powering it down, also would have reset everything...
Glad you're running OK, now.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Georgetoon
|
|
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2011, 08:20:15 PM » |
|
Weird things can happen. When you did your "complete" shutdown, did that include the monitor? Perhaps the system was having a problem reading the EDID from it? If so, powering it down, also would have reset everything...
Glad you're running OK, now.
That makes sense. On reboot/restart, the monitor did not fully power off. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Toonfully,
Mark
-----------
Lenovo 14" ThinkPad Edge (0578F5U) with Core i3 Processor(i3-370M) 2.40 GHz 4GB RAM
Acer Aspire 9300 Laptop
Desktop Icy Dock system with AMD PHENOM X4 QUADCORE 9650 2.3GHZ 4MB L1 , NVidia GEFORCE 9400GT 1GB 2X DVI PCIE graphics card, 22" Chimei monitor.
|
|
|
|
Dilber MC Theme by HarzeM