Sunday, December 22, 2019

How to change driver to nvidia-current?

Alright, I've already installed the nvidia drivers a while ago and had to deactivate them again because I couldn't change the resolution.




Now I would like to activate them again for HDMI support. The additional drivers window says that the driver nvidia-current is activated, but not in use. What is needed to use it as the primary driver again? I've already checked the Internet, but couldn't find any help.



Edit: If I run nvidia-xconfig and relog, my resolution freezes at 640x480 and I can't change it anywhere. Heres the content of my xorg.conf, since that seems to be causing the problem. As soon as I delete the xorg.conf, everything is back to normal again, but without nvidia drivers.



xorg.conf:



# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 304.64 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-12) Tue Oct 30 12:04:46 PDT 2012



Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default

Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
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 "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0

VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"

Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "nvidia-auto-select"
EndSubSection
EndSection

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