Comment 35 for bug 189844

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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Raymond Rehayem <email address hidden>wrote:

> Matthew-
> well, here's what somehow worked for me and I'm a total novice so I'm
> afraid I can't go much past this since I no longer have it installed.
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> open terminal and type:
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> sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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> (it creates a blank xorg file. I forget where it put it, which directory)
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> open this 'blank" xorg.conf and pasted in code:
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> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Configured Video Device"
> BusID "PCI:240:16:0"
> *Driver* "*nouveau*"
> EndSection
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> into it and saved it.
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> code from-
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1137500
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> I rebooted and it worked.
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> Not sure how…
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> Richard- does this sound like bad advice? It worked for me.
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> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Matthew <email address hidden> wrote:
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>> As far as I know this is the root:
>> root@matthew-desktop:~/xserver-xorg-video-nv-2.1.12#
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>> I then get the following message:
>> cp: cannot stat `src/.lib/nv_drv.*': No such file or directory
>>
>> This is after following the steps you describe above
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>> --
>> [Hardy-Alpha 4 PPC] Screen resolution correct but shifted to the right
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189844
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>> Status in X.Org X server: In Progress
>> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nv” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>>
>> Bug description:
>> On my PPC G5 iMac 20" built-in display with Hardy-Alpha 4, using the
>> standard NV driver, the resolution of 1680x1050 is detected correctly but is
>> shifted to the right by about 1/2 inch, which continues back to the left
>> hand side. In other words, the trash can and quit icons are mostly cut off
>> on the right, and appear on the left!
>>
>> Unfortunately, the mouse won't go past a boundary on the left hand side to
>> access them, even if I did want to live with the display shifted like this.
>> This issue first appeared for me in Gutsy as well, and nothing seems to be
>> able to move the display back to the left a little. I have tried xrandr,
>> xvidtune, custom modelines, etc. Only Feisty and below have the 1680x1050
>> screen centered properly. With an Imac, there are no manual screen movement
>> adjustments that can be made. It feels as though something is locking out
>> any attempt to center the screen, since the resolution seems correct.
>>
>> Interestingly enough, if I take a screen-shot and view it, the screen-shot
>> looks perfect, but isn't centered properly in real life. I've tried the
>> usual dkpg-reconfigure routines, but it's not that the resolution is
>> incorrect, it is just that the screen want to dive over to the right and
>> wrap back to the left....
>>
>> [lspci]
>> 0000:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV34M
>> [GeForce FX Go5200] [10de:0329] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>> Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0010]
>>
>>
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