[Nouveau] Nouveau doesn't use the maximal resolution of my screen and GPU

Ilia Mirkin imirkin at alum.mit.edu
Tue Oct 28 13:43:03 PDT 2014


Output name 'default' is not the name of an output nouveau can produce
(or nvidia for that matter, afaik). This is the vesa driver or...
something. Can you supply xorg log + dmesg?

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Victor Lefèvre <victorlefevre at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi Illia,
>
>
> With Nouveau :
> xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
> Screen 0: minimum 1024 x 768, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
> default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
>    1024x768       76.0*
>
>
> With the Nvidia Driver :
>
> xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
> Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
> default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
>    1280x1024       0.0*
>    1024x768        0.0
>    800x600         0.0
>    640x480         0.0
>
>
> Le 27/10/2014 05:19, Ilia Mirkin a écrit :
>
>> What does 'xrandr' output?
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Victor Lefèvre<victorlefevre at free.fr>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I'm using Lubuntu 14.04 on an old desktop PC with a NVIDIA GeForce 7600
>>> GS
>>> and a screen of 19 inches.
>>>
>>> The maximal resolution of my screen with Nvidia drivers is 1280x1024. (In
>>> particular, I use the Nvidia 331.89 driver)
>>>
>>> With Nouveau driver, the maximal resolution falls to 1024x768.
>>>
>>> Is there a solution for increasing the maximum resolution with Nouveau ?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Victor Lefèvre
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>
>


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