From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 09:22:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24582106564A for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:22:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmfepo202.cox.net (eastrmfepo202.cox.net [68.230.241.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6538FC0C for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:22:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmfepo202.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.04.00 201-2260-137-20101110) with ESMTP id <20110825092205.HVAL32466.eastrmfepo202.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:22:05 -0400 Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([98.164.83.25]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id QZN41h0050YnB6A02ZN4kU; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:22:04 -0400 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020204.4E56143C.00F6,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=5AHg1zS6fKBk64vkGL/stHpTKznySuNzRq0QOAs0BF0= c=1 sm=1 a=0Ag1IRbOQu0A:10 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=2vO5UZG1h46htWAnE/rx2g==:17 a=VoOZAsGbAAAA:8 a=tnGnZ8rkAAAA:8 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=lOqpBnrc1fp6CJciM2AA:9 a=mAevK2fMgxZ1CRLwN5MA:7 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=jKRid43F7UoA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=2vO5UZG1h46htWAnE/rx2g==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Received: from cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p7P9M3ll010771; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:22:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:21:58 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20110825042158.3644b0d6@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20110825103731.4cddea94.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20110814032206.49ad7062.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110814025520.GA75595@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20110814052211.02213877.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110814054942.5e08fb77.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110816141503.16603a52@serene.no-ip.org> <20110825103731.4cddea94.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.5; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+ X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:22:14 -0000 On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:37:31 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:15:03 -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > > > Yes, the driver performs quite admirably. :-) No more gnashing my > > teeth in envy of others with true hardware-accelerated drivers. > > I'm currently using that driver, and everything seems to > work as intended. The only problem I have is that the > driver has different DPI opinions as the previous ones. > This makes some fonts unreadable. I found that I can > easily change the Gtk+ base font by a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 > with something like ``gtk-font-name="Tahoma 12"'' in > it, but this of course doesn't apply everywhere. Yes, I noticed this, too, as soon as I switched to using this driver. Fonts shrank all over the place. :-) I hadn't considered adjusting the DPI. That sounds like an interesting possibility. > There seems to be a solution to handle DPI settings in > X directly, so I put "DisplaySize 410 305" in the monitor > section of xorg.conf. The monitor is an Eizo FlexScan F980 > 21" CRT with BNC cabling, so no autodetect magic. But some > things still are wrong, maybe I should try ``Option "DPI" > "96 x 96"'' in the device section - I'm not sure which > values should be used, 72 or 75 or 96 or 115... > > Additionally, the gv program has a problem (but it already > had that on _each_ of the three drivers): The keys for > selecting pages are squished. > > This is how they should look like: > > http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/intro/plotcalc7.png > > They are like this: > > +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ > |* ===| | ===| | ===| | ===| > | ===| |* ===| | ===| | ===| > |* ===| | ===| |* ===| | ===| > | ===| |* ===| | ===| | ===| > +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ > > SHOULD like. Currently, they look like this: > > +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ > |#####| |#####| |#####| |#####| > +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ > > You can't tell which is which. > > The gv program uses Xaw3d for the display elements. Maybe nVidia > is not compatible with that? Or it's also a "wrong DPI" effect? > Everything else in gv works as intended. Hmm, sorry, I don't know about that. You may find the following link helpful: http://www.retrevo.com/support/Eizo-F980-Monitors-manual/id/1360bh645/t/2/ > On the other hand, mplayer can now change brightness and contrast > again; I have put "vo=gl" in ~/.mplayer/config and it works. :-) Cool, I'll have to try that. > > > I'd like to point out that the nvidia driver comes with > > > nice documentation: /usr/local/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README > > > contains lots of great stuff. > > > > The html version is even nicer to work with: > > > > file:///usr/local/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/html/index.html > > Thanks for the pointer, yes, that's really informative. During > the near future, I'm interested in getting Twinview + Xinerama > working (as I actually have _two_ 21" CRTs of the same type) > and TV out working. There's almost too much documentation for this driver. So much to look at and tinker with. Great fun it is, though. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net