{"id":216,"date":"2014-08-14T02:20:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T09:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/furi.us\/?p=216"},"modified":"2014-08-17T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T08:36:09","slug":"xorg-nvidia-and-ubuntu-trusty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furi.us\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Xorg Nvidia and Ubuntu Trusty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a rather picky home-theater-PC screen.  After upgrading Ubuntu on the HTPC from Precise to Trusty, I just couldn&#8217;t get the display to sync.  After switching out HDMI cables (which did change things, but not for the better) I figured out that <code>xrandr --output HDMI-0 --mode 1348x752<\/code> would bring the display back.  (It&#8217;s a custom mode line.)<\/p>\n<p>However, I couldn&#8217;t make this mode change permanent in <code>\/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf<\/code>.  The <code>nvidia-auto-select<\/code> mode kept overriding things.<\/p>\n<p>The solution was to add this line to the <code>Monitor<\/code> section of <code>xorg.conf<\/code>:<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\n        Option \"ModeValidation\" \"HDMI-0: NoPredefinedModes, NoXServerModes, NoVesaModes, NoEdidModes\"<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a rather picky home-theater-PC screen. After upgrading Ubuntu on the HTPC from Precise to Trusty, I just couldn&#8217;t get the display to sync. After switching out HDMI cables (which did change things, but not for the better) I figured out that xrandr &#8211;output HDMI-0 &#8211;mode 1348&#215;752 would bring the display back. (It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computernitpicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}