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nVidia GeForce 2 MX 200 issue

Hey, I just finished installing U-lite on my old K6-2 with an nVidia GeForce 2 MX 200, and I'm having issues with the nVidia driver and GDM. It works, except that the fonts are extremely large (around 200 pt). The menus grow off the screen and basically, LXDE is unusable.

The weird thing is, I can make everything work fine. If I boot into GDM, SSH in, stop the GDM, then log into the box and run startx, LXDE boots and looks fine. Normal size font and everything. Anyone have any ideas on what's wrong?

Thanks in advance!

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Sun, 01/31/2010 - 02:27 | nychold

[FIXED]

Okay, I found the problem. I dug through /var/log/Xorg.conf and found that EDID (or maybe the nVidia driver) was computing the DPI wrong. (I had a resolution of 1152x864 set, and it was computing something like 2000x2000 dpi.) I found this:

http://it.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/HTML/appendix-y...

which told me to add:

Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"

to the [Screen] section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf and now it works perfectly. Hopefully anyone else who has this same problem will find the answer here quickly, instead of searching around for hours. :)

Sun, 01/31/2010 - 19:38 | nychold

Thank you!

n/t

Mon, 02/01/2010 - 00:22 | noalternative