Hello, I have a problem with a computer that I am setting up for my son for school and games.
there were multiple problems before the problem listed in the in the title.
I tried installing Age of Empires 2 through Phoenicis (couldn’t get the Apps to populate) so that was a no go, Lutris would almost install it and then time out, then this morning I was able to get it to finally install through Lutris. I launched the game, the cinematic part played wide and stretched out, then when the game loaded the screen went black. I tried various methods and finally was able to get back to the desktop. I tried to launch what I believe was the exe file for the settings for Age of Empires 2 and it went directly to the black screen except this time I couldn’t get out of it. I had to hard reset.
Now, after rebooting the computer, I can get to the login page like normal but when I sign in, the screen goes black and a message pops up from the monitor (LG) it reads “HDMI out of range 75.0 kHz / 60 Hz”
I looked on line for how to set refresh rate from command line with xrandr but every time I try to use xrandr it says can’t open display.
When I say command line I mean (ctrl+shift+f2 at login) really sorry if my terminology is wrong.
Then I discover that I can’t use xrandr without startx first but as soon as do startx I get the HDMI out of range message and ctrl+shift+f2 does nothing.
I tried looking for the xorg.conf file but all I see is xorg.conf.d which makes me wonder if I need to modify something else like an Nvidia config file.
the monitor is connected as follows in case it is relevant.
monitor hdmi port > HDMI cable > HDMI to DVI adapter > DVI port NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
Most likely the last resolution was saved by KDE. Create a new user account and see if it works there.
The folder /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d is preferred. Possible that nouveau (open source) driver is running and not the one from nvidia. That open source drivers can produce weird problems when it comes to gaming.
It is all right that way if copy&paste is not possible.
Your GPU needs the 340xx driver of nvidia which is EOL (end of life) and forget about gaming on such a gpu even good old AOE2 will not work properly on linux due zero vulkan support.
However, it is possible to install the 340xx driver manually if you need it:
However, I dont know if it works on the latest kernel version. Keep sure you run kernel 5.4 for that driver.
I was able to create a new user but sadly it wouldn’t let me login, it would loop me back to enter the password. I then tried to run the live USB I initially used to install manjaro and it stalled at “reached graphical interface” with a flashing cursor. Not sure what that is about. ctrl+alt+f2 let me login to manjaro manjaro then I tried startx and more errors which is strange as I just installed from it a few days ago and it was working fine. It may be that this pc is dying.
thank you for your help