WilliamS Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 After install of Mandrake 10.1 I have a black strip on the left of the desktop, it's about 1/4" wide. I'm using KDE. This always happened with earlier versions of mdk, but disappeared when I installed nvidia driver. Not this time. Ideas anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 Change the monitor settings. :) Monitors allow you to move the image in all directions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 Happens to me all the time. It's because you haven't installed the nvidia drivers. You can also, like devries says, modify the settings of your monitor, but -depending on monitor, phase of the moon, etc- you'll have the same problem reversed in windows. The best solution is perhaps installing the drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 Sorry. Early in the morning speak/read. Are you sure the nvidia driver is working? have you changed the /etc/X11/XF86config-4line from "nv" to "nvidia" ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamS Posted January 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 /my bad. I was sure I installed the nvidia driver, but re-installed, this time I did rtfm, and now have no more black strip. glxgears shows 5340 FPS. Yay. However, now mdk boots into init 3, I have to do /sbin/modprobe nvidia, then startx. I remember having a note that a line must be added somewhere so it will boot normally, but can't find it. (Never been neat, but usually I don't throw out such stuff. Aargh.) Does anyone have that needed line, and where to put it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamS Posted January 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 Fixed it - I put /sbin/modprobe nvidia into /etc/rc.d/rc.modules. It boots as it should. Also found a note: With the new NVIDIA 6629 drivers, you also have to add this line: Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" to the Section "Device" of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file if you want to use the composite options and have GLX / 3d acceleration. The README warns that this may have negative effects on the displaying of OpenGL applications. I didn't see this in the README, and it seems to do nothing. (?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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