[Nottingham] NVidia cards and Monitor Frequency

[David Aldred]

Hi

It's worked on both machines on earlier (k)Ubuntu distros; in fact I think it 
was working at one point on 9.04 on the other machine (the kids play Quake 
more than I do, and it goes in and out of fashion in the house!).

David

On Sunday 01 Nov 2009, James Holland wrote:
> 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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> 


-- 
David Aldred