Have you ever got it working on any other distribution?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/1 David Aldred <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@familyaldred.org.uk">david@familyaldred.org.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Evening, all!<br>
<br>
I'm having a spot of bother getting two Linux machines to play nicely with<br>
Quake3....<br>
<br>
The issue is that when I start the game on either machine, the result is a<br>
blank monitor screen with a (monitor-generated) message saying "out of<br>
frequency". The only way to restore normality is to go to another<br>
virtual terminal and kill the X-session.<br>
<br>
The OS on the machine in front of me is Kubuntu 9.10; the standard xorg.conf<br>
file is minimal for this distro. I'm using the NVidia restricted drivers and<br>
the rewritten xorg.conf is:<br>
<br>
==============================================================================<br>
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig<br>
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Tue Oct 20 21:00:15<br>
PDT 2009<br>
<br>
<br>
Section "ServerLayout"<br>
Identifier "Layout0"<br>
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0<br>
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"<br>
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Files"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "InputDevice"<br>
<br>
# generated from default<br>
Identifier "Mouse0"<br>
Driver "mouse"<br>
Option "Protocol" "auto"<br>
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"<br>
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"<br>
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "InputDevice"<br>
<br>
# generated from default<br>
Identifier "Keyboard0"<br>
Driver "kbd"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Monitor"<br>
Identifier "Monitor0"<br>
VendorName "Unknown"<br>
ModelName "Unknown"<br>
HorizSync 30.0 - 60.0<br>
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0<br>
Option "DPMS"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Device"<br>
Identifier "Device0"<br>
Driver "nvidia"<br>
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Screen"<br>
Identifier "Screen0"<br>
Device "Device0"<br>
Monitor "Monitor0"<br>
DefaultDepth 24<br>
Option "TwinView" "0"<br>
Option "metamodes" "1024x768_75 +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0"<br>
SubSection "Display"<br>
Depth 24<br>
EndSubSection<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
========================================================================<br>
<br>
The figures for HorizSync and VertRefresh are both taken from the monitor<br>
manual; the monitor's resolution is described in the manual as '1024x768<br>
(75Hz)'.<br>
<br>
Of course, I can't tell what error messages may be written to the console as<br>
they are on the console in the X-session I have to kill!<br>
<br>
The second machine is very similar; the only real difference is that's it's an<br>
older NVidia-based card and it's on Ubuntu 9.04 instead of Kubuntu 9.10. It's<br>
the same NVidia driver and the same monitor, though.<br>
<br>
Any suggestions most welcome....<br>
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--<br>
David Aldred<br>
<br>
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