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HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[confabulate@kintzios.com] X-Rspamd-Action: no action X-Archives-Salt: 7774e768-6446-439e-8400-41a8a7ac4b2c X-Archives-Hash: 028cce2970eeb157ece323797bde29e6 --nextPart22341056.EfDdHjke4D Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; protected-headers="v1" From: Michael To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: confabulate@kintzios.com Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:24:17 +0100 Message-ID: <1973249.PYKUYFuaPT@rogueboard> In-Reply-To: <4123ac85-e2ce-4b8c-6e27-91d089eef024@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 On Sunday, 30 June 2024 23:56:40 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > This is good! :D > > Edit the section below by adding the PreferredMode line: > > > > Section "Monitor" > > > > Identifier "Monitor0" > > VendorName "Unknown" > > ModelName "LG Electronics W2253" > > HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0 > > VertRefresh 56.0 - 61.0 > > Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080_60.00" > > Option "DPMS" > > > > EndSection > > > > Save it, then check if you get a consistent result when you restart the > > DM, or reboot. > > > > If it is still playing up you need to show the Xorg.0.log while the > > monitor is working with the nvidia driver, to see which Modeline it uses > > and add this in the "Monitor" section too, above the "PreferredMode" > > entry. > > > > If none of this works reliably, then you have to capture the EDID table > > while the monitor is working, save it in a file and set nvidia-settings > > to use it hereafter. However, if you will NOT be using this monitor for > > much longer this would be an exercise only to make you feel good for > > beating it into submission! LOL! > > OK. First time, it worked. Second time, it came up but in low res. > Plasma was working to, both times. So, I opened the Nvidia GUI and told > it to safe a new config with it in hi res mostly just to see what it > would add if anything. It did. The only change I could see was it > added metamodes options like this: > > Section "Screen" > > # Removed Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Device0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > Option "Stereo" "0" > Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DP-3" > Option "metamodes" "1920x1080 +0+0" > # Option "metamodes" "1920x1080 +0+0; 1024x768_60 +0+0" > Option "SLI" "Off" > Option "MultiGPU" "Off" > Option "BaseMosaic" "off" > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > > As you can see, I removed the low res part, don't want that anyway, and > it seems to work more often but still fails a lot. So, I removed the > metamodes Nvidia added. Then it didn't come up at all, sddm or > anything, when I restarted DM. I thought it adding your setting to > another section might help. Guess not. With the following removed, it > seems to do a little better but still can't depend on it to work. > > Section "Screen" > # Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DP-3" > # Option "metamodes" "1920x1080 +0+0" > # Option "metamodes" "1920x1080 +0+0; 1024x768_60 +0+0" You can add back: Option "metamodes" "1920x1080_60 +0+0" > Basically, it is doing like it always has. Most of the time, it doesn't > work. Sometimes it does. To be honest tho, I still wonder if it even > reads the file. When I change something, I'd expect something > different. Generally, it doesn't seem to affect anything unless I > reboot completely. Sometimes I'm not sure it does then either. So, I > think this old monitor just has a issue. Maybe I need to rebuild some > more of the power supply or something in case it is providing bad power > to the parts that talks to the puter. Either way, if the new one works, > I just don't think this old monitor is going to work correctly no matter > what we throw at it. The last thing left to try is to capture the EDID table with nvidia-settings, configure it to stop trying to load it from the monitor and instead feed the captured file to it. If that doesn't work either, then there is no solution I can think of ... > I will saw this, we threw the kitchen sink at it. I think this is one > of the longest threads I've seen in a long while. o_O > > Dale > > :-) > > P. S. Monitor updated. Now it says tomorrow. It's in the right place > to do so. It's at the Memphis hub. Usually, it comes from there to the > local distribution point and on the truck. They sometimes deliver by > noon. Could be a little late given it is Monday. Hopefully this won't be the start of a new loooooong thread on yet another monitor! LOL! --nextPart22341056.EfDdHjke4D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. 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