[opensuse] NVIDIA Ge Force 7300GT
Hi List, There is a problem with NVIDIA Ge Force 7300GT, my friend has downloaded and installed a driver for it from Nvidia's official web-site, though the resolution remains to be very small and web-sites are not shown normally (letters are getting on each other). The preferrable resolution is 1400x900, and it used to work under it with SuSE, but he can't make it work now with SciLinux. There is a configuration file XFree86 there with lines in it _________________ Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection ________________ Is that the Modes where it should be changed to...what "1400x900", "1280x1024"? Don't knock me for topic which is not directly related to SuSE, but I guess that should be the same for different Linux-systems. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Sergey -- A----T Sergey Mkrtchyan, C---G Master Student, G-C Department Of Molecular Physics, T---A Faculty Of Physics, Yerevan State University A----T e-mail: mksergey[at]freenet[dot]am G---C ____________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 26 November 2006 17:45, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
Hi List,
There is a problem with NVIDIA Ge Force 7300GT, my friend has downloaded and installed a driver for it from Nvidia's official web-site, though the resolution remains to be very small and web-sites are not shown normally (letters are getting on each other).
The preferrable resolution is 1400x900, and it used to work under it with SuSE, but he can't make it work now with SciLinux.
There is a configuration file XFree86 there with lines in it _________________ Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection ________________
Is that the Modes where it should be changed to...what "1400x900", "1280x1024"?
Don't knock me for topic which is not directly related to SuSE, but I guess that should be the same for different Linux-systems.
Thanks in advance. Best regards, Sergey
I find the nvidia drivers always worked best for me when i explicitly set the options for modes , freqencies and DPI. I also found that in some of the driver versions disabling monitor settings probe with EDID sometimes helped also as it would over-ride any manually configured options in the xorg.conf Check out appendix D of the nvidia linux driver docs for the options regarding modes and mode validation. http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9629/README/appendix-d.html These options mentioned in appendix D should usually be place in the 'device' section but maybe also the 'screen' section. For example here I deny the driver the ability to probe my monitor for valid modes using the Option "ModeValidation" "NoEdidModes" directive, this allows be to manually set my modes in the xorg.cong file Section "Device" BoardName "GeForce 7800 GS AGP" BusID "1:0:0" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" VendorName "NVidia" Option "ModeValidation" "NoEdidModes" EndSection Regards Graham -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Nov 26, 06 21:45:07 +0400, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
The preferrable resolution is 1400x900, and it used to work under it with SuSE, but he can't make it work now with SciLinux.
There is a configuration file XFree86 there with lines in it _________________ Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection ________________
Is that the Modes where it should be changed to...what "1400x900", "1280x1024"?
For newer driver you probably only have to change this line (hint: change defaultdepth and depth to 24 as well ;) Make also sure that there are no "Option" lines in the "Device" section. With some monitors you need some options, maybe even a ModeLine, but typically you don't.
Don't knock me for topic which is not directly related to SuSE, but I guess that should be the same for different Linux-systems.
Alternative: Install sax2 for the system. It's open source :)
Matthias
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Matthias Hopf
Hi Matthias, Matthias Hopf wrote:
On Nov 26, 06 21:45:07 +0400, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
Is that the Modes where it should be changed to...what "1400x900", "1280x1024"?
For newer driver you probably only have to change this line (hint: change defaultdepth and depth to 24 as well ;)
That works! Thank you very much, saying trully I couldn't wait till the answer and changed the resolution to 1440x900, that was Ok, but monitor's frequency was too low. I also didn't know that color depth should be changed to 24 (I tried 32 but it didn't work earlier). Now with 24 everything is Ok with that "blinking" frequency(I mean there is no more of it ;)) Thank you very very much. Now it is possible to read there :D Best regards, Sergey -- A----T Sergey Mkrtchyan, C---G Master Student, G-C Department Of Molecular Physics, T---A Faculty Of Physics, Yerevan State University A----T e-mail: mksergey[at]freenet[dot]am G---C ____________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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