Game won't go fullscreen

Post by **GameKyuubi** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:01 pm · Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:01 pm

Game won't go fullscreen

Post by GameKyuubi » Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:01 pm

Alright. So I'm trying to play a game in fullscreen mode but it keeps getting forced into a 640x480 box in the corner of my main monitor. I've got a dual-head NVIDIA card (7900GT) hooked up to two monitors via DVI with TwinView and I'm running Ibex 8.10, KDE 4.1.4.

I've run it in the terminal and I get errors referencing XRandR and how it doesn't have 640x480 @60 listed as a valid mode. So I added 640x480 @60 and now I get "err:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Resolution change not successful -- perhaps display has changed?". I don't understand what's stopping the resolution from changing. I'm 100% sure both of my monitors support that resolution. Maybe it has something to do with TwinView? After adding the resolution, this is what

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xrandr

has to say about my supported modes:

Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 3200 x 1200, maximum 3200 x 1200
default connected 3200x1200+0+0 0mm x 0mm
3200x1200 50.0*
640x480_60.00 60.0

3200x1200 is the faux resolution used for my dual-screen setup, I'm assuming, but even then it should be ~60Hz, not 50... So I guess I have two questions: what's going on here, and how do I fix it?

Post by **vitamin** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:00 pm · Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:00 pm

Re: Game won't go fullscreen

Post by vitamin » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:00 pm

GameKyuubi wrote:how do I fix it?

Fix your xorg.conf to list all the modes you need.

Post by **GameKyuubi** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:46 am · Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:46 am

Post by GameKyuubi » Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:46 am

I might have added them in the wrong place, but it seems that whenever I add modes to xorg.conf, xrandr completely ignores them. Do I have to add the modes to BOTH?

Post by **GameKyuubi** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:53 am · Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:53 am

Post by GameKyuubi » Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:53 am

Added

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Modes      "640x480"

to subsection "Display" of section "Screen" and added ModeLine built by gtk to "Monitor" section. Did nothing. :[

Post by **GameKyuubi** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:13 am · Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:13 am

Post by GameKyuubi » Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:13 am

Restarted and now xrandr won't accept any new modes. I had a modeline built by gtk that was accepted fine last session but now it won't go:

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xrandr --newmode 640x480_60.00 23.86 640 656 720 800 480 481 484 497 -HSync +Vsync
X Error of failed request:  BadName (named color or font does not exist)
  Major opcode of failed request:  157 (RANDR)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  16 ()
  Serial number of failed request:  13
  Current serial number in output stream:  13

So I changed the name so that it looked like this:

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xrandr --newmode 640x480 23.86 640 656 720 800 480 481 484 497 -HSync +Vsync

And now I get the same error:
err:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Resolution change not successful -- perhaps display has changed?

Post by **vitamin** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:03 pm · Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:03 pm

Post by vitamin » Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:03 pm

GameKyuubi wrote:I might have added them in the wrong place, but it seems that whenever I add modes to xorg.conf, xrandr completely ignores them. Do I have to add the modes to BOTH?

If you using TwinView you have to add metamodes. Or don't use twinview and use xinerama.

Post by **GameKyuubi** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:28 pm · Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:28 pm

Post by GameKyuubi » Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:28 pm

So how do I go about doing that? I've tried adding a few myself based on tutorials online but they don't seem to be working.

Post by **GameKyuubi** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:58 pm · Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:58 pm

Post by GameKyuubi » Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:58 pm

This isn't working at all. I've edited my xorg.conf up, down, left and right but nothing seems to help! Here is my xorg.conf for examination, sorry for the long post:

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# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildd@palmer)  Mon Nov  3 08:46:46 UTC 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "ViewSonic"
    VendorName     "ViewSonic"
    ModelName      "ViewSonic VX922"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 82.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
    Modeline       "640x480_60.00"  23.86  640 656 720 800  480 481 484 497  -HSync +Vsync
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "FHD2400"
    VendorName     "Gateway"
    ModelName      "Gateway FHD2400"
    Option         "DPMS"
    Modeline       "640x480_60.00"  23.86  640 656 720 800  480 481 484 497  -HSync +Vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 7900 GT/GTO"
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-1"
    Option         "MetaModes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+176, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0"
    Option         "MetaModes" "DFP-0: NULL, DFP-1: 640x480"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "ViewSonic"
    DefaultDepth    24
#    Option         "TwinView" "1"
#    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-1"
#    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+176, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0"
#	SubSection "Display"
#		Depth		1
#		Modes	"1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
#	EndSubSection
#	SubSection "Display"
#		Depth	4
#		Modes	"1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
#	EndSubSection
#	SubSection "Display"
#		Depth	8
#		Modes	"1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
#	EndSubSection
#	SubSection "Display"
#		Depth	15
#		Modes	"1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
#	EndSubSection
#	SubSection "Display"
#		Depth	16
#		Modes	"1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
#	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	24
		Modes	"1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection

EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "FHD2400"
    DefaultDepth    24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		1
		Modes	"1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	4
		Modes	"1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	8
		Modes	"1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	15
		Modes	"1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	16
		Modes	"1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
    	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	24
		Modes	"1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection


EndSection

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:34 am · Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:34 am

Post by dimesio » Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:34 am

GameKyuubi wrote:This isn't working at all. I've edited my xorg.conf up, down, left and right but nothing seems to help! Here is my xorg.conf for examination, sorry for the long post:

You are likely to get more help with this on the nVidia Linux forum. How to edit your xorg.conf for Twinview is not a Wine question.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14