[Gllug] Slackware 8.0, XFree86 4.1.0 and Nvidia drivers...

Richard Pounder rpounder at flibble.cx
Sat Nov 10 20:01:10 UTC 2001


Erm, there is http://zaph.com/Modeline/ or give me all you know about your
monitor and I can work a few out for you.

Richard.

On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Roberto D'Amico wrote:

> Looking through the monitor manual again, I found a table which lists the
> VESA modes my monitor can handle,
> The highest is VESA/85 which is 1025x768 H at 68.67KHz V at 85Hz. Since this is
> the highest resolution i'm getting, I guess I am using the VESA modes.
> 
> How to i specify my own modeline? or a least point me to the relevant
> section in the docs.
> 
> Thanks
> roberto
> 
> PS: I'm real starting to miss 1600x1200
> 
> "Roberto D'Amico" (Saturday, November 10, 2001 7:18 PM)
> > I have a  TNT2 Ultra.
> > Not sure wether I'm using the vesa modes!
> > The screen section of the XF86Config file has three entries,
> > 8,16,24 , each depth has the following line for the  "1208x1024"
> ...(others
> > ommited)... "640x480"
> > the default depth is set to 24.
> >
> > Any more info?
> >
> > cheers
> > rob
> >
> > "Richard Pounder" (Saturday, November 10, 2001 6:18 PM)
> > > Are you using the standard vesa modes and what card are you using. Im
> > > running in 1500x1200 with the nvidia on slackware 8.0 with xfree86 4.1.0
> > > using a riva tnt2 and my own modeline.
> > >
> > > Richard.
> > >
> > > On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, VoidHawk wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > I've jsut installed the nvidia drviers and I've got a problem with it!
> > > > I can't get any resolution higher than 1024x768.
> > > > When i was using the default driver shipped with XFree86 (4.1.0),
> > > > "nv",  I could get upto 1600x1200.
> > > >
> > > > I'm running Slackware 8.0.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > cheers
> > > > rob
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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