I ran into a similar situation trying to get my widescreen to work when it was a new thing. The problem was that that version of the nVidia driver was the first one to use DDE (or whatever the name is) to auto detect the monitors scan rates and only use what is reported. Well, the newness of it made the auto identification fail. There is a driver specific setting to tell the driver NOT to use the auto values reported by the monitor, or the stored (erroneous) values based on ID from monitor. Anyway, I found this switch setting in the readme file that comes with the driver. If you look through that readme, you'll see a setting for detecting the monitor rates. Enable this switch so that it only looks at values you've set for modes in the xconf file. Once you do this, it is a matter of providing the correct modes in the xconf. If I remember, it is something like EDID, or the like. With the .run file, if you execute it with --extract-only, it will create a directory that will have that README in it. B-) On Wednesday 23 April 2008 6:01:20 am Clayton wrote:
Does nvidia settings ask you to run as root? If not edit the menu item to run as a different user and leave the user blank. Then try settings again and detect displays. If that doesn't work you'll have to try asking nvidia.
Doesn't it always? I can't remember it not asking me for root password. If you try to run that util as $USER there is little to nothing you can actually do with that util.
I have posted on the nVidia forums as well.. no answers there.
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