X problems

[Karl F. Larsen]

Fred Roller wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 05:55 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Fred Roller wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 09:44 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> 	I mounted a pci Nvidia card several months ago in my computer and it
>>>> was working fine to now. I decided to anchor the card front to the place
>>>> it should go. Hard to get to because the screw hole is hidden by the
>>>> power supply.
>>>>
>>>> 	I unplugged the card and took screws off the back side and was able to
>>>> put the screw in with the card out of the socket, and then put the card
>>>> into the socket. It appears to be working but my system can not get the
>>>> proper image size now.
>>>>
>>>> 	If I come up normal I get a 800x600 display which is not right of
>>>> course. I did check the system-Admin-Hardware Drivers and the Nvidia
>>>> driver was off. I clicked it to on and had to reboot. Checked and it was
>>>> off again. Did this dance many times. It appears there is a problem in
>>>> this area.
>>>>
>>>> 	If I come up in the broken version of this Hardy and wait for the
>>>> ability to check xsetup I do so but it fixes nothing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 	Any ideas? I do get a good image so I think the Nvidia pci card is
>>>> working. But I can't get the right image size.
>>>>
>>>> Karl
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>
>>>> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>>>> 	Linux User
>>>> 	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
>>>>         Key ID = 3951B48D
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>         
>>> Karl, if you have a spare video card, swap it out to make sure you
>>> didn't damage something during the install.  Sounds like you had to shoe
>>> horn the thing in and may have damaged it in some way.  Let's be sure
>>> the hardware is good to go first.
>>>   
>>>       
>>     I do have the video card that is on the mother board. I removed the
>> pci card and worked with that video device and had exactly the same
>> image size problem. This seems to tell me the problem is software, not
>> hardware.
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>
>>     
>
> What do your logs have in them?
>
>
>   
    I will have a look at /var/log/ and see. I am on my laptop now. It
is also Linux and is still working!


73 karl