Alfred von Campe wrote:
Well, we don't use 3D, but we ended up using the nvidia driver so we could drive the LCD monitor at its native resolution and frequency (1600x1200 @ 60Hz). I first tried using the onboard video chip (Intel 9XX) on our workstations, but it couldn't drive 1600x1200 at the right frequency. I then purchased some inexpensive nVidia GeForce 6200 cards, but I had to install the nVidia driver for them to work properly at 1600x1200 using the DVI connector (I forgot exactly what the problem was). But installing the nVidia driver solved all the problems.
Since you've already gone to the nVidia card it's a little late, I know, but one of my Dell workstations has a similar display chip (Intel 915G) and I was able to drive my Dell 2100fp at 1600x1200@60Hz by making a couple of changes in the xorg.conf file. Specifically, in the "Monitor" section I added a modeline for the that resolution with some different timings:
ModeLine "1600x1200" 160.0 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250
Then in the "Screen" section I added 1600x1200 to the "Modes" line:
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Les filling, tastes great!
The only issue is that I have to re-install the driver whenever there is a new kernel. I haven't dug deep enough to figure out how to install the driver in a newly installed but not yet running kernel. I usually just manually change the runlevel to 3 at boot time, install the driver, and then switch to runlevel 5. But that requires physical access to each workstation. Since there is a new kernel waiting to be installed by yum at the moment, maybe I will take the time to figure out how to do this now. I did manage to hijack the firstboot mechanism, so that after I kickstart a system it automatically installs the driver before going to runlevel 5.
It's not that hard, thankfully. You can specify the kernel version to the installer script, as well as just installing a new kernel module rather than a full reinstall:
/usr/local/bin/nvidia-installer --kernel-module-only --kernel-name=(kernel version)
For example, when the new kernel (kernel-2.6.9-42.0.3.plus.c4) came out, I just ran this command before rebooting to the new kernel:
/usr/local/bin/nvidia-installer --kernel-module-only --kernel-name=2.6.9-42.0.3.plus.c4
It does require that the kernel-devel{,-smp} package be installed for the kernel for which you want to rebuild the driver, but
that's not really a problem for me. I've been trying to figure out how to make this happen at boot-time before starting X, but
haven't pursued it too hard.
Hope that helps! -- Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN jay.leafey@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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