MrMorden Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 (edited) I recently reinstalled my drivers because I upgraded to a GeForce 6800. My desktop had been set to 800x600, so I told it to go back to 1280x1024. When I did so, it gives me more desktop space, but the extra space appears off the edge of the screen! To see my entire desktop, I need to move the cursor to the edge of the screen so it scrolls. In my attempts to fix this problem, I searched google.com/linux for Desktop does not all appear on screen Desktop doesn't all appear on screen I also tried rebooting, and I also tried reinstalling the drivers and let it run that X configuration utility that comes with the NForce drivers. Thank you, MrMorden Edited January 8, 2006 by MrMorden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMorden Posted January 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 ...and I managed to make it worse. In further attempts to find a solution, I opened up MCC, went to "configure your monitor," and changed it to a 1280x1024, 60 Hz (I have an LCD monitor, so I didn't think the refresh rate would matter) Now X won't come up at all, and I had to reboot back into Windows to make this post. I tried reinstalling the drivers again and let it run that X configuration utility, and the Nvidia splash screen comes up before dropping me to a command line. Help! Thanks again, MrMorden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 From what you said in the first post the problem was simply that you had a virtual screen (larger than the resolution) so it scrolls sideways. Its not particulary useful and seems to be activated somehow .... The easy fix is to look up the correct modes for your monitor and just putitng them directly into the xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 and replacing whatever you have got. Im not sure which config utility you were using .. can you be more specific? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 This site can help you create the correct modeline to put in xorg.conf http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMorden Posted January 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 (edited) From what you said in the first post the problem was simply that you had a virtual screen (larger than the resolution) so it scrolls sideways. Its not particulary useful and seems to be activated somehow .... The easy fix is to look up the correct modes for your monitor and just putitng them directly into the xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 and replacing whatever you have got. Im not sure which config utility you were using .. can you be more specific? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was using the MCC "configure your monitor." Edit: clarification Edited January 8, 2006 by MrMorden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMorden Posted January 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 This site can help you create the correct modeline to put in xorg.conf http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm afraid I don't know all the information that site asks for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMorden Posted January 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 I got it working; it was that X configuration utility from Nvidia that fouled things up. Fortunately, it saved the previous version of xorg.conf, which I reverted to. Thanks for your help! -MrMorden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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