Howdy, New monitor came in. Found it on my porch. Unboxed it and hooked it up. Started with no xorg.conf file. It's high res, plasma comes up so all that is fine. Now comes the problem. Everything is HUGE. Even on SDDM screen, it's like it is zoomed in or something. Icons are huge, fonts are huge. I think what it is doing is this, and it may be the video card. I think it is thinking I have four monitors set up as one large screen. With this one monitor, I'm seeing the top left monitor but not seeing the rest since I only have one monitor connected. I might add, when I click to logout, that screen is huge too.
I generated a xorg.conf with the nvidia tool. No change. I tried removing options that I thought might cause this largeness problem. I even rebooted. No change. I open the Nvidia GUI software and tried adjusting things there. No change. I compared the setting to my main rig, other than the difference in the cards, all settings appear to be the same including what should be displayed where. The resolution is correct too. Is it possible this card functions differently than my usual cards? Someone mentioned these tend to be used in a business system which could mean they use four monitors for one large display, for presentations or something. Is there something I need to disable or enable so the card knows I want independent monitors maybe? I'm attaching the xorg.conf file, including options I commented out. I also checked the logs, no errors or anything. It's just the usual things like mouse and keyboard loading and it finding the monitor connected, unlike the old LG. Maybe someone here as ran into this at work or for a client and has a idea on how to fix or that this card is not designed for my use. While I'm waiting on a reply, I'm going to try one of my older spare video cards. If it works fine, it could be the new video card is set up to work this way. May not can even change it. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
root@Gentoo-1 ~ # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 550.90.07 # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 550.90.07 Section "ServerLayout" # Option "Xinerama" "0" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" Option "Xinerama" "0" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Samsung LS32B30" HorizSync 30.0 - 84.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0 Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080_60.00" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "Quadro P1000" EndSection Section "Screen" # Option "Stereo" "0" # Option "MultiGPU" "Off" # Option "BaseMosaic" "off" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" # DefaultDepth 24 # Option "Stereo" "0" # Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DP-3" # Option "metamodes" "1920x1080 +0+0" # Option "SLI" "Off" # Option "MultiGPU" "Off" # Option "BaseMosaic" "off" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection root@Gentoo-1 ~ #