From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OZffj-0002sP-Ph for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:49:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B87BBE08BF; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:49:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79626E08BF for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:49:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb39 with SMTP id 39so1843663wyb.40 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:49:14 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.127.194 with SMTP id h2mr585080wbs.117.1279266553894; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:49:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.185.213 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:49:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [89.204.248.230] In-Reply-To: <4C3ED1A4.3050604@gmail.com> References: <4C3ED1A4.3050604@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:49:13 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to 508 x 317 From: Robert Bridge To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 004d7550-a2b5-4aaf-b028-657848de81d3 X-Archives-Hash: 72746e81f153510aae77a1f72d30b23c On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Erik wrote: > (There are other issues with this video device; it shows only 25 =D7 80 > characters in the virtual terminals (should be 75 =D7 240). This is the > new Dell vostro|1720 from November, that replaced the old INSPIRON|8600 > aquired 5 years earlier, with radeon driver. That old device worked fine > without any configuration files. The physical screen size was detected > and the virtual kernel output switched to 75 =D7 240 characters as soon a= s > the device was detected.) Hi Erik, It would help if you actually told us which driver you are using, and what the actual hardware is. I'm guessing it's an nVidia card in the new laptop, and some form of ATI card in the old one. It sounds like the driver is over-riding the xorg.conf with (incorrect) readings it's getting from the EDID for the display. Cheers, RobbieAB.