From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: Upgrading to NVIDIA 6629 driver causes desktop display to be off while on a laptop display. The desktop is displayed smaller than the physical screen, with the top of the desktop also showing on the bottom of the screen, and several mulicolored stripes down the righ hand side of the screen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.go to init 3 2.install NVIDIA 6629 3.startx Actual Results: X comes up without error, but the display is now distorted, the desktop (and splash screen) come up much smaller than the physical screen. The top of my desktop also shows up on the bottom of my screen and about 1/5 of my screen is filled with multicolored lines (down the right hand side. Everything works as it should, 3D acceleration is fine. Also, if the laptop is docked the display is fine (using a CRT monitor). Changing res and monitor have no effect. Expected Results: X starts as normal Additional info:
Thanks for the report. For users who are experiencing problems installing, configuring, or using the unsupported 3rd party proprietary "nvidia" video driver, Nvidia provides indirect customer support via an online web based support forum. Nvidia monitors these web forums for commonly reported problems and passes them on to Nvidia engineers for investigation. Once they've isolated a particular problem, it is often fixed in a future video driver update. The NVNews Nvidia Linux driver forum is located at: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 Once you have reported this issue in the Nvidia web forums, others who may have experienced the particular problem may be able to assist. If there is a real bug occuring, Nvidia will be able to determine this, and will likely resolve the issue in a future driver update for the operating system releases that they officially support. While Red Hat does not support the proprietary nvidia driver, users requiring technical support may also find the various X.Org, XFree86, and Red Hat mailing lists helpful in finding assistance: X.Org mailing lists: http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/XorgMailingLists XFree86 mailing lists: http://www.xfree86.org/sos/lists.html Red Hat mailing lists: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo Setting status to "NOTABUG" (unsupported).