* Ron Cordell
I snuck some time from work to play with this a little more. Booting to the command line instead of the graphical prompt allowed me to see quite a bit more information about what errors were for the display when attempting to start X. Turns out that the nvidia driver did not like my 1600x1200 display resolution. I ran SAX2 from the command line, and lo and behold, there is a cool NVidia screen coming up on my X Server! Wow!
a TNT2 should be able to do 1600x1200 accelerated. However, the question is how much memory does your TNT2 board have ? If it's 8M you cannot do 1600x1200 accelerated. (and yes, 1600x1200 is excellent on a 21" monitor, and doable on a 17 i forgot exalty how the math goes, but there used to be an entry about this on the dri project over on sourceforge. And there is ;) .. http://dri.sourceforge.net/faq/faq_display.phtml?id=21 or even better check http://dri.sourceforge.net/res/rescalc.phtml Running at 1600 x 1200 you will need at least this much video memory: 16 bpp: 11520000 bytes = 10.986328125 megabytes 32 bpp: 23040000 bytes = 21.97265625 megabytes If your cards video memory falls within 1-2 megabytes of the given value it will be a very tight fit. In that case you should try lowering your screen resolution or running at a lower color depth. Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Global Technical Support Fax +31-10.280.1511 Jason Geosystems BV (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you do not disseminate, forward, distribute or copy this e-mail message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and destroy the original message.