[01:00] <bhuey> hello, I'm having problems with my X configuration
[01:00] <bhuey> I'm trying to get the NVidia driver working with this machine and but it's not displaying correctly
[01:01] <bhuey> It's basically not sending a signal to the monitor
[01:01] <bhuey> but the text console works find
[01:01] <bhuey> fine
[01:01] <bhuey> I have the kernel driver, nvidia, loaded and the 180 verions of the glx liberies are load
[01:01] <bhuey> there aren't any obivous problems with the X log
[01:02] <bhuey> anybody ?
[01:12] <bhuey> the "nv" driver works otherwise from the manual change
[01:54] <RAOF> bhuey: You'd need to pastebin at least your Xorg.0.log & xorg.conf before anyone could say anything useful.
[04:41] <bhuey> RAOF: bin pastebin where ?
[04:41] <RAOF> Anywhere.
[04:41] <RAOF> !pastebin
[04:41] <ubottu> pastebin is a service to post multiple-lined texts so you don't flood the channel. The Ubuntu pastebin is at http://paste.ubuntu.com (make sure you give us the URL for your paste - see also the channel topic)
[04:41] <RAOF> Should do.
[04:41] <bhuey> ok
[04:49] <bhuey> http://paste.ubuntu.com/153795/
[04:49] <bhuey> RAOF: there
[04:49] <bhuey> the screen is in powersave mode otherwise
[04:53] <bhuey> What do you folks think ?
[05:50] <RAOF> bhuey: That looks pretty much right to me.
[05:56] <bhuey> what's going on then ?
[05:57] <bhuey> the screen is off
[05:57] <bhuey> or goes into power save mode
[05:59] <pwnguin> well
[05:59] <pwnguin> you do have a dpms setting
[05:59] <bhuey> what's that ?
[05:59] <bhuey> this is the default configuration that I use with some nvidia instruction to create an xorg.conf
[06:00] <pwnguin> something power mangement system
[06:00] <bhuey> what's preventing the display from coming up ?
[06:01] <pwnguin> does gdm come up?
[06:01] <bhuey> it's not visible
[06:02] <bhuey> when I change the driver it comes up
[06:02] <pwnguin> anything interesting in dmesg or syslog?
[06:03] <bhuey> let me see
[06:03] <pwnguin> if you're using an xorg.conf, it might help to pastebinit
[06:04] <bhuey> ok
[06:04] <pwnguin> RAOF: this reminds me. should i be able to run multiple x servers on nouveau?
[06:04] <bhuey> nothing interesting in the syslog
[06:05] <RAOF> pwnguin: 
[06:05] <RAOF> pwnguin: Yes, as long as you turn off acceleration.
[06:05] <RAOF> pwnguin: (I think)
[06:05] <RAOF> It'll definitely fail if you're trying for acceleration, because of the lack of drm multi-master.
[06:06] <pwnguin> define accelleration
[06:06] <pwnguin> certainly not glx
[06:06] <pwnguin> anything involving mtrr?
[06:06] <RAOF> Video hardware doing any drawing other than scanning out the frontbuffer to the screen.
[06:07] <RAOF> In other words: Option "NoAccel" "True"
[06:07] <pwnguin> i get something like error: setting MTRR (base = 0xe0000000, size = 0x08000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)
[06:07] <pwnguin> in gdm.log
[06:08] <bhuey> http://paste.ubuntu.com/153832/
[06:08] <bhuey> that's my xorg.conf
[06:08] <bhuey> default configuration for the most part
[06:08] <pwnguin> apparently you really want the nvidia driver ;)
[06:09] <pwnguin> bhuey: one last guess. check out /var/log/gdm
[06:10] <bhuey> gdm should be fine, it comes up fine in nv
[06:10] <pwnguin> and it doesnt come up in nvidia
[06:10] <pwnguin> find a log where it ran under nvidia
[06:11] <bhuey> http://paste.ubuntu.com/153834/
[06:12] <pwnguin> well, aside from completing missing freetype, i donno what's wrong
[06:12] <bhuey> who else should I talk to about this ?
[06:12] <pwnguin> #nvidia
[06:12] <pwnguin> and maybe their forum turned bug report tool
[06:13] <bhuey> oh wait,
[06:13] <bhuey> it comes up on the other monitor instead of the first one
[06:13] <bhuey> interesting
[06:13] <pwnguin> oh rihgt
[06:13] <pwnguin> i forgot to ask if you had two video ports
[06:13] <bhuey> nv and nvidia apparently switch the ports
[06:13] <pwnguin> heh
[06:13] <bhuey> how do I get it to use the second monitor ?
[06:13] <pwnguin> man nvidia
[06:14] <bhuey> ok
[06:14] <pwnguin> well crap
[06:14] <pwnguin> no manpage (nv has one)
[06:14] <bhuey> no man pages for that
[06:14] <bhuey> what about nvidia-settings ?
[06:15] <pwnguin> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx should have a very long text manual
[06:15] <pwnguin> that covers xorg.conf options
[06:15] <pwnguin> out of curiosity
[06:15] <pwnguin> why do you prefer nvidia to nv?
[06:16] <bhuey> dual screen support and glx
[06:16] <pwnguin> ah
[06:16] <bhuey> I'm unaware of the open source driver being able to handle thi
[06:16] <bhuey> this
[06:17] <pwnguin> nouveau can
[06:17] <bhuey> if somebody has an xorg.conf that can do this I'd like to see it
[06:17] <bhuey> handle this ?
[06:17] <bhuey> which ?
[06:17] <bhuey> both ?
[06:17] <pwnguin> dual screen
[06:17] <pwnguin> glx not so much
[06:17] <bhuey> glx is a complicated problem
[06:17] <pwnguin> well, my 6600gt runs glx im told
[06:18] <pwnguin> but honestly, all i want anymore is just want a quiet desktop that can decode video
[06:19] <bhuey> I've got the same card
[06:19] <bhuey> it's budget but works great
[06:21] <pwnguin> in that case
[06:21] <pwnguin> gallium3d actually runs (usually) on 6600gt's
[06:21] <pwnguin> however, i dont think the ubuntu builds come with it
[06:22] <pwnguin> given that it's highly unstable and works for like one chipset
[06:57] <bhuey> yeah, I'm able to get mostly what I want from the nvidia configuration tool but I cant save the file
[07:40]  * bryce waves
[07:58] <Mirv> morning
[07:58] <tjaalton> *2
[12:20] <bhuey> pwnguin: thanks it's working now. I wonder if I can turn one of the monitors into a kind of portait mode
[12:21] <bhuey> I can rotate the entire image but not just one monitor
[14:38] <Shappie> Hi all. Im trying to make a big desktop setup with my ATi card (fglrx driver). Can somebody help me?
[14:39] <Shappie> I have installed the latest drivers from ATi site. Because the ones shipped with Jaunty didnt want to install (using Kubuntu btw).
[14:39] <Shappie> When i go to the Catalyst Control Center i cant choose for big desktop as usually...
[14:39] <Shappie> It only says: unknown in grey
[14:39] <Shappie> Anybody an idea?
[17:55] <pwnguin> bhuey: i know you can in nouveau with xrandr, havent tried with twinview