Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 09 November 2007 11:01:00 pm Ed McCanless wrote:
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce FX 5500 at PCI:1:0:0: (--) NVIDIA(0): @@@ (CRT-0) (--) NVIDIA(0): @@@ (CRT-0): 350.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: CRT-0 (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1024x768"; removing. (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1024x600"; removing. (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "800x600"; removing. (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "768x576"; removing. (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "640x480"; removing. (WW) NVIDIA(0): (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to validate any modes; falling back to the default mode (WW) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select". (WW) NVIDIA(0): (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes: (II) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select" (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 800 x 600 (**) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (58, 58); computed from "DisplaySize" Monitor (**) NVIDIA(0): section option (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp (II) do I need RAC? No, I don't.
This indicates to me that NVIDIA could not recognize the monitor at all (except that it is there.)
Note the line "(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce FX 5500 at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)." I have AGP (unless pci and agp slots are interchangeable. Maybe I should examine the card more closely.)
That is OK. The AGP slot is part of PCI subsystem so it has PCI ID, it doesn't mean it is PCI card.
So, my next question is: Could I obtain the proper mode lines by removing the card and using sax2 to generate a new xorg.conf file, since sax2 did this properly before I added the new card?
You can do that, but it is a question would be that configuration valid for new card. Though, attempt can't hurt. The worst that can happen is to run sax2 one more time.
But, first try to configure proper monitor size for your monitor if YaST doesn't work (and here it doesn't as sax2 reads current configuration) than Ctrl-Alt-F1, login as root, run init 3 to switch to runlevel without Xorg running. Run sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia The '-r' should tell sax2 to forget database and start from scratch.
Now when it gives proposal click on Change and you will have the same screen as with YaST > Hardware > Graphic Card and Monitor and you should be able to change monitor size in tab Display Size to 19". Now your monitor size is set to 15" and nvidia driver set 800x600 resolution as native for that size of the monitor.
As I said, I have tried that again. It still doesn't work. I have noticed another difference with the nvidia drivers though. The font in Thunderbird and Konqueror seems much smaller than it did running at 1024x768 with the integrated graphics. I am getting ready to run the sys. set that way again, to grab the xorg.conf file it produces. I'll check the appearance then to make sure it's not just my eyes getting tired. -ED- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org