Everything is so big after nvidia drivers download

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Create a file as explained

with those contents. You can change descriptions for the card. The important option is

Logout to SDDM to check. This restarts Xorg.

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I guess so, but according to messages, the nvidia-auto-select mode uses monitor EDID. If this change (not using monitor EDID) solves the issue, it seems better :person_shrugging: , or so I think.

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I was just looking at something else so would be as an example:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option         "UseEdidDpi" "False"
    Option         "DPI" "96 x 96"
EndSection
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basically i have to change “1050 Ti” with “750 Ti” right?

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It is not important. You can name it however you like, just for beauty :wink:
Driver and Option values must not change.

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Does he need “Device” to be named as it is in the output? Device-1 ?

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so now in that folder i have the 20-nvidia.conf with the exact same text you sent, just changed as said 1050 with 750

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No. Device is a section title, not a setting.
Edit: I missed your other post.
Device

Identifier can be named whatever. It is actually used when making a complicated Xorg configuration with several sections that link to each other, especially with more than one GPU.

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i think i have to reboot(?)

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Only logout should be enough, but you can also reboot. I suggest you logout and login.

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man it worked woaaa, so what was basically the problem?

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I hope this works. I was looking at stuff here as i am not as familiar with all of it. So i need to follow some guides.

Thanks a lot for your help @petsam
I keep learning as always.

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Well done! Great job :+1:

NVIDIA, as most of the times. nvidia driver could not properly get and set monitor dimensions, using monitor values taken from what the monitor (EDID) provides. Apparently Xorg and open-source driver (nouveau) can do a better job on that. :person_shrugging:

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i’ll keep that noted for the future, really really thanks to everyone who lost time on this and especially for this solution and hoping this day could be helpful for someone else in the future

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At least it wasn’t as complicated as having to create a different EDID. :wink:

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Nice guide, although I prefer Archwiki.
You should always check/compare with Archwiki equivalent articles, as upstream makes a lot of effort to create successful autoconfiguration on Xorg. Also, Kali uses debian packages and instructions, which are different with packages and their configuration files.

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I just find the Arch Wiki hard to understand the way it is written. :upside_down_face:

Edit: I just wish i was smarter. :rofl:

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@petsam
So you don’t think setting a custom DPI on KDE would work in settings?

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I think it was checked and was already not convenient.

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Sorry i didn’t realize that was what he meant.

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