On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 01:00:02 +0200, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-02 17:21 (UTC-0400): > >> I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), >> yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the >> display is offset to the top and the right. I have not found any >> reference on the web that shows how to adjust that, although there are >> some before xrandr when xorg.conf was still used, that might have done >> it. Since then, everything is supposed to be automatic and simply >> work. No workee. > >> I suspect it is a video driver issue, but there doesn't seem to be a >> source for the NVIDIA® GeForce FX Go5200, not even from nvidia. I >> did find a good online source for the original toshiba laptop drivers >> but they are for win xp, nothing for linux. > >> Is there some way to fix this? Am I asking in the right place? > >Based upon my desktop FX 5200 here your 5200 ought to work optimally >without any proprietary driver, with no graphics configs required in >/etc/X11/xorg.con*, and no need for xrandr: > ># inxi -Smyz >System: > Kernel: 5.10.0-13-686 arch: i686 bits: 32 Desktop: Trinity > Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) >Memory: > RAM: total: 1.47 GiB used: 313.7 MiB (20.8%) > Array-1: capacity: 4 GiB slots: 4 EC: None > Device-1: DIMM_1 size: 256 MiB speed: 400 MT/s > Device-2: DIMM_2 size: 256 MiB speed: 400 MT/s > Device-3: DIMM_3 size: 512 MiB speed: 400 MT/s > Device-4: DIMM_4 size: 512 MiB speed: 400 MT/s ># inxi -Gayz >Graphics: > Device-1: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] ] That is the desktop version. Mine is built into my toshiba laptop. Go5200 is the laptop version. Nvidia seems to use Go a lot to distinguish the difference between desk and lap and, they do take different drivers. driver: nouveau v: kernel ports: > active: VGA-1 empty: DVI-I-1,TV-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0322 > class-ID: 0300 > Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: nouveau > unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0 > screens: 1 > Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1680x1050 s-dpi: 108 s-size: 395x246mm (15.55x9.69") > s-diag: 465mm (18.32") > Monitor-1: VGA-1 model: Lenovo L2251x Wide serial: <filter> built: 2011 > res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 90 gamma: 1.2 size: 474x296mm (18.66x11.65") > diag: 559mm (22") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1680x1050 min: 720x400 > OpenGL: renderer: NV34 v: 1.5 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes ># xrandr | egrep 'onnect|creen|\*' | grep -v disconn | sort -r >VGA-1 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y >axis) 474mm x 296mm >Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 4096 x 4096 > 1680x1050 59.97*+ 74.89 ># > >Do you have both nouveau drivers loaded, kernel>device and X>display, >as seen in output above from mine? Is there more than one line with (EE) >in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? -- Noah Sombrero
