[Nottingham] NVidia cards and Monitor Frequency

[James Holland]

Have you ever got it working on any other distribution?

2009/11/1 David Aldred <david at familyaldred.org.uk>

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