[dundee] Mame , Modelines and Pacman

[Lee Hughes]

I have mode lines, I'm currently using Vesa and giving it some hints

HorizSync 15-30
VertRefresh 50-90

and I can output, however... it's a screen is a bit squished, if I run xvidtune it's says

Video modes are not tunable on this chip

So presumably I'm going to have to get the nvidia driver working.


00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7025 (rev a2)

which is on board evil thing, but it's the best I have? 

what driver do I need for this, there seems to be lots of drivers?


no, I've head the nvidia driver mostly ignores the xorg.conf file, and builds it own?
so, how am I going to feed it custom mode lines  :-(






X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Ubuntu (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9.2)
Current Operating System: Linux mame 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 i686
Build Date: 13 June 2008  01:08:21AM


I'm using ubuntu 8.04  , 






--- On Tue, 30/9/08, Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote:
From: Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net>
Subject: Re: [dundee] Mame , Modelines and Pacman
To: toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk, "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Date: Tuesday, 30 September, 2008, 5:04 PM

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:48:08 +0000 (GMT), Lee Hughes wrote:

> Hey Guys n Gals, 
> 
> I need help, possibly mental but that's another story......
> 
> I've been making a mame cabinet, It's going quite well, I'll
post
> some photo's and stuff when I get a moment.
>
> Thing is, I'm having trouble with the screen, it's a old vga
monitor,
> which has a  vga cable.
> 
> It's can see the bios boot screen fine, and xorg works with the
> device "vga".. 
> 
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "vga"
>         VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
>         BoardName   "Unknown Board"
>         BusID      
>  "PCI:0:18:0"
> EndSection

You don't say what distro or X version your using but if it's
recentish you could try the  nouveau driver which I believe supports
randr 1.2

Do you have a Monitor section? or are you letting X probe the monitor.


Andrew

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