[lug] KDE 2.2

[John Hernandez]

I got the fix by reading the NVidia INSTALL document more carefully:

Section "Device"
  Option "IgnoreEDID" "on"

It tells the driver to ignore the claims your monitor makes about its capability.  Apparently this can be dangerous, but I was sure the monitor could handle it, since I had it working with the "nv" driver.  What's odd is that the "nv" driver seemed happy with the EDID results for 1280x1024.  Oh well.

John Hernandez wrote:
> 
> Here are the relevant sections of XF86Config-4:
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier "NEC E1100"
>         VendorName "Unknown"
>         ModelName  "Unknown"
>         HorizSync 31 - 82
>         VertRefresh 55 - 120
>         Option "dpms"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier "nVidia Corporation|NV11 DDR"
>         Driver "nvidia"
>         BoardName "Unknown"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device "nVidia Corporation|NV11 DDR"
>         Monitor "NEC E1100"
>         DefaultDepth 24
>         Subsection "Display"
>                 Depth 24
>                 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768"
>         EndSubSection
>         Subsection "Display"
>                 Depth 8
>                 Modes "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Changing the driver from "nv" (XF86) to "nvidia" (proprietary) made 1280x1024 unavailable.  I don't see where I can correlate particular modes with specific refresh rates.  How is that accomplished?  How can I tell what my current refresh rate is?
> 
> howeljs at grimoire.stortek.com wrote:
> >
> > I have no problems with my GeForce3 on XF86 4.0.3 at 1280x1024 or
> > 1600x1200. It's probably your monitor settings in your config file.
> > Might try upping the refresh rates a bit and see if that helps.
> >
> > John Hernandez wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, that seems to be the case.  I just tested re-starting X from the console, and it comes up with SIZE 219M right off the rip, so I don't suspect a leak.  I'd be inclined to believe that this figure includes all those things you mentioned above.  Either way, I'm happy with the performance so far.  Only snag I've run into is that the (binary only) NVidia driver doesn't want to run at 1280x1024, but likes 1152x862 just fine.  I have admittedly not RTFM on the NVidia site.  Has anyone else had success running this driver at higher resolutions?
> >
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