AVWizard not displaying correctly

[FuZoRBlade]

I installed Kubuntu using the CD and then installed the latest Nvidia drivers using Envy. Then I installed LinuxMCE. After rebooting, I was unable to view the AVWizard, so i went into the shell and replaced the xorg.conf with the xorg.conf.backup. Then the AVWizard was launched.

Problem is, when i am in the AVWizard, the display isnt working problem. I selected DVI/HDMI (im running this on my 47 inch HDTV). Then I selected 720p. After that I selected 60herz, and my display looked extremely garbled and there were lines running along it. I went back and i tried 50 herz, but i could only see the top left corner of the AVWizard!!!! Literally I could only see 20% or less of the total screen.

How would i go around solving this? Is it a problem of the Xorg.conf that i replaced? What could be the problem?

[Hagen]

Why did you install the Nvidia drivers 
They are included in the LMCE install, or are they not working for your card?

[FuZoRBlade]

they dont work for my card.. my card is extremely new and only supported by the LATEST nvidia drivers

[Hagen]

ouch

[Zaerc]

See http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Display_Drivers for manual configuration.

[FuZoRBlade]

Thanks for the link Zaerc.. I was just wondering what would I need to change in my xorg.conf?

The resolution??

Section "Screen"
       Identifier   "Screen0"
       Device       "Card0"
       Monitor      "Monitor0"
       DefaultDepth 24
       SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth      24
               Virtual    1600 1200
               Modes      "1280x720"
       EndSubSection
EndSection

is that what i have to do?

[Zaerc]

Thanks for the link Zaerc.. I was just wondering what would I need to change in my xorg.conf?

The resolution??

Section "Screen"
       Identifier   "Screen0"
       Device       "Card0"
       Monitor      "Monitor0"
       DefaultDepth 24
       SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth      24
               Virtual    1600 1200
               Modes      "1280x720"
       EndSubSection
EndSection

is that what i have to do?

Depends on what you are trying to achieve I guess.  It's probably better to set "Virtual" and "Modes" to the same resolution though (or leave "Virtual" out altogether).  Other then that I don't see anything out of the ordinary.

[nikey]

I ran into blank screen issues with my GeForce 6200 card when it reached the AVWizard. This was with a monitor connected to the VGA port. Pressing the numer keys did not help, so I dropped into console (Ctrl + Alt + F1) and had a look at the xorg.conf file in /etc/X11

The problem was caused by the entry under Section "Device",

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Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
This seemed to push the video signal out to somewhere other than the VGA? However this only happened when trying to use the nvidia driver. When the AVWizard is run it inserts this Option automatically so
I changed the driver setting from

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Driver "nvidia" to

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Driver "nv" and rebooted. Now I could see the AVWizard.

I then stepped through the wizard and set the user interface to UI2. This of course failed once the Orbitors were generated but by this time my xorg.conf file was generated. I dropped back into the console, edited the xorg.conf file and set the

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Driver "nv" back to

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Driver "nvidia" and commented out the

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Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"

Rebooted and all was well.

[Hagen]

That actually happened to me yesterday as I was netbooting an Asus 6000 with Gf7xxx card.
Never saw that one before.
Thanks, I'll try that sollution this weekend.

By the way, where do I change this value?
Can I do it directly from the prompt where the AV wizard fails?

[nikey]

By the way, where do I change this value?
Can I do it directly from the prompt where the AV wizard fails?

The values are held in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I would assume that on a net boot machine you can still use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to access the linux console and log in with

user: linuxmce
passord: linuxmce

Note: For me the AVWizard did not fail. It just did not appear (black screen). I think it was still running, but the video was being sent to nowhere! On pressing Ctlr+Alt+F1 there was a short delay (1-2 secs) before the login prompt appeared.

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sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf to edit the file and why not make a backup too before you edit it. 

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sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20070914

Good luck!

[totallymaxed]

I ran into blank screen issues with my GeForce 6200 card when it reached the AVWizard. This was with a monitor connected to the VGA port. Pressing the numer keys did not help, so I dropped into console (Ctrl + Alt + F1) and had a look at the xorg.conf file in /etc/X11

The problem was caused by the entry under Section "Device",

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Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
This seemed to push the video signal out to somewhere other than the VGA? However this only happened when trying to use the nvidia driver. When the AVWizard is run it inserts this Option automatically so
I changed the driver setting from

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Driver "nvidia" to

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Driver "nv" and rebooted. Now I could see the AVWizard.

I then stepped through the wizard and set the user interface to UI2. This of course failed once the Orbitors were generated but by this time my xorg.conf file was generated. I dropped back into the console, edited the xorg.conf file and set the

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Driver "nv" back to

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Driver "nvidia" and commented out the

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Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"

Rebooted and all was well.

After temp switching to 'nv' as suggested above I found that I had to set "ConnectedMonitor" as below;

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Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT-1"

Then all was well :-)