SOLVED Video card woes Nvidia geforce 6800 gs

[bidder]

Hi all!

I picked up a new pci-e tv tuner card to replace my current pci tuner card. Well...after doing so, there was no signal to the monitor. I changed the video cable to the on-board output, looked at the bios, changed the cable back to the video card, swapped everything back to the original set-up and rebooted. I had video back. However, I am now limited in screen resolution choices and everything is stretched. In PCC I poked around the hardware section and the card shows up (Nvidia geforce 6800 gs) but nothing I select has an effect. Oh, And the system no longer recognizes the original TV tuber card either.

Help?

[menotu]

What driver are you using bidder ?

Also, you could check in

Configure Your Desktop >> Hardware >> Display & Monitor > Size & Orientation

to see whether that offers more sizes to choose from

[bidder]

Thanks for the reply!
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Identification
Vendor: ‎nVidia Corporation

Description: ‎NV41 [GeForce 6800 GS]

Media class: ‎VGA compatible controller

Connection
Bus: ‎PCI Express

PCI domain: ‎0

Bus PCI #: ‎1

PCI device #: ‎0

PCI function #: ‎0

PCI revision: ‎0xa2

Vendor ID: ‎0x10de

Device ID: ‎0x00c0

Sub vendor ID: ‎0x10de

Sub device ID: ‎0x0339

Misc
Module: ‎Card:NVIDIA GeForce 6100 to GeForce 360

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xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 270.41.03  (root@localhost.localdomain)  Tue Jun 14 15:22:48 CDT 2011

# File generated by XFdrake (rev 262502)
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "layout1"
    Screen         "screen1" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "v4l" # Video for Linux
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
 # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
    #DontZoom # disable <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
    Option         "DontZap" "False" # disable <Ctrl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
    Option         "allowmouseopenfail"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
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 "Monitor"

    # Monitor supported modeline (59.9 Hz vsync, 55.9 kHz hsync, ratio 16/10, 77 dpi)
    Identifier     "monitor1"
    VendorName     "Plug'n Play"
    ModelName      ""
    HorizSync       31.0 - 80.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 76.0
    ModeLine       "1440x900" 106.5 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 +hsync -vsync
    ModeLine       "1680x1050" 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 +hsync -vsync
    ModeLine       "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630
    ModeLine       "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "device1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName      "NVIDIA GeForce 6100 to GeForce 360"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "screen1"
    Device         "device1"
    Monitor        "monitor1"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "DPMS"
    Option         "DynamicTwinView" "false"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       15
        Modes      "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

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The size and orientation is where I discovered I can't get higher resolution than 1400 X 1050. i have a 22" monitor and that doesn't cut it. The xorg.conf lists 1600X1200 but I can't see where I can select it.

[menotu]

The size and orientation is where I discovered I can't get higher resolution than 1400 X 1050. i have a 22" monitor and that doesn't cut it. The xorg.conf lists 1600X1200 but I can't see where I can select it.

aaah!  I saw you'd mentioned PCC and thought you'd tried the settings there and possibly not in KDE System Settings (i.e. Configure Your Desktop )

And you can't change the size in

PCC (Configure Your Computer)  >> Hardware >> Configure Video Card ?

[bidder]

I went back and to PCC and this time chose automatic for the resolution and it worked!! I never had to touch this setting before.

Than you for your time and help!!
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aaah!  I saw you'd mentioned PCC and thought you'd tried the settings there and possibly not in KDE System Settings (i.e. Configure Your Desktop )

And you can't change the size in

PCC (Configure Your Computer)  >> Hardware >> Configure Video Card ?