Stretched screen after reboot [Solved]

[Member DS]

Hello! I’ve installed AntiX-21, everything was good until I’ve decided to reboot. Now after Grub my screen becomes wildly stretched. Like, only few letters seen, and they’re unusually high. Most of the screen just total mess.

System:
CPU: Dual Core Intel Core2 6420
Video card: NVIDIA G73 [GeForce 7600 GS]
RAM: 2 Gb
Tell if anything else needed.

I suspect that’s something with video card, but, well, Nvidia Driver Installer says video card is too old and there’s no drivers in current repositories. Also not sure how in this case come that first launch is normal.

[Moderator caprea]

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Yes the card is to old for nvidia driver, it needs the legacy 304, which is not provided anymore on bullseye, not even on buster.
https://packages.debian.org/de/stretch/nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver
Please post
inxi -Gxxx
so we can see if the nouveau is loaded correctly.

[Member DS]

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I am to post only video card related part, right?

Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] vendor: Elite Systems
driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0392
class-ID: 0300

[Moderator caprea]

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Please the whole output.

[Member DS]

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Oh. Sorry.

Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] vendor: Elite Systems 
  driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0392 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Logitech Quickcam 3000 For Business type: USB 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 046d:09a5 
  class-ID: 0102 serial: B81B0920 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: nouveau 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
  s-dpi: 96 
  OpenGL: renderer: NV4B v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes

[Moderator caprea]

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Odd enough this is looking good, not sure about the resolution.
If you go to control-centre > session > Screen resolution(ARandr)
under Output devices you can choose from available resolutions

Also, if this is a antiX-full installation, during the live session antiX uses the 4.9 kernel and on the installed system the 5.xxx kernel.
So if you choose the 4.9 kernel in the “advanced options” on the boot screen, you might get a better result.

[Member DS]

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caprea wrote:

If you go to control-centre > session > Screen resolution(ARandr)
under Output devices you can choose from available resolutions

Already checked, only mine resolution or not so catastrophically smaller.

caprea wrote:

So if you choose the 4.9 kernel in the “advanced options” on the boot screen, you might get a better result.

Didn’t help last time.

UPD. This time 4.9 kernel worked right. Don’t know why it didn’t work last time, but still thank you a lot!

• This reply was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by DS.

[Moderator caprea]

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So if the 4.9 kernel is working correctly for the graphic card, would you be so kind to post the output of inxi -Gxxx again, when bootet into it.

[Member DS]

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Yeah, of course.

Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] vendor: Elite Systems
driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0392
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Logitech Quickcam 3000 For Business type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-4:4 chip-ID: 046d:09a5
class-ID: 0102 serial: B81B0920
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: nouveau
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv resolution: 1024×768~60Hz
s-dpi: 96
OpenGL: renderer: NV4B v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes

TBH the only difference I see is cam bus ID. It seems, that’s not video card?

• This reply was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by DS.

[Moderator caprea]

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Yes, no difference. I would have guessed that the modesetting might be used now for the xserver, but no.
Thanks for posting.
You sure now that if you want to boot the 4.9 kernel per default,the easiest way is to remove the 5.xxx.
Can we mark it solved?

[Member DS]

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Well, I guess.
One more thing: I’ve noticed today that problem starts on /dev populating.

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