<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I have mode lines, I'm currently using Vesa and giving it some hints<br><br>HorizSync 15-30<br>VertRefresh 50-90<br><br>and I can output, however... it's a screen is a bit squished, if I run xvidtune it's says<br><br>Video modes are not tunable on this chip<br><br>So presumably I'm going to have to get the nvidia driver working.<br><br><br>00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7025 (rev a2)<br><br>which is on board evil thing, but it's the best I have? <br><br>what driver do I need for this, there seems to be lots of drivers?<br><br><br>no, I've head the nvidia driver mostly ignores the xorg.conf file, and builds it own?<br>so, how am I going to feed it custom mode lines :-(<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90<br>Release Date: 5 September 2007<br>X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0<br>Build Operating System: Linux
Ubuntu (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9.2)<br>Current Operating System: Linux mame 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 i686<br>Build Date: 13 June 2008 01:08:21AM<br><br><br>I'm using ubuntu 8.04 , <br><br><br><br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 30/9/08, Andrew Clayton <i><andrew@digital-domain.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] Mame , Modelines and Pacman<br>To: toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk, "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee@lists.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Tuesday, 30 September, 2008, 5:04 PM<br><br><pre>On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:48:08 +0000 (GMT), Lee Hughes wrote:<br><br>> Hey Guys n Gals, <br>> <br>> I need help, possibly mental but that's another story......<br>> <br>> I've been making a mame cabinet, It's going quite well,
I'll<br>post<br>> some photo's and stuff when I get a moment.<br>><br>> Thing is, I'm having trouble with the screen, it's a old vga<br>monitor,<br>> which has a vga cable.<br>> <br>> It's can see the bios boot screen fine, and xorg works with the<br>> device "vga".. <br>> <br>> <br>> Section "Device"<br>> Identifier "Card0"<br>> Driver "vga"<br>> VendorName "nVidia Corporation"<br>> BoardName "Unknown Board"<br>> BusID <br>> "PCI:0:18:0"<br>> EndSection<br><br>You don't say what distro or X version your using but if it's<br>recentish you could try the nouveau driver which I believe
supports<br>randr 1.2<br><br>Do you have a Monitor section? or are you letting X probe the monitor.<br><br><br>Andrew<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>