On Oct 18, 2006, at 14:42, Jay Leafey wrote:
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"
That's good to know for the future. But how did you come up with
those numbers for the ModeLine entry? I played around with the
HorizSync and VertRefresh entries to no avail.
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
I have not installed the nvidia-installer, but rather I run the
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-XXXX-pkg1.run script with the -s option (silent)
after rebuilding it with the --add-this-kernel option.
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.
I got this to work, but it was a bit of a hack. I'll contact you off
list with the details.
Alfred
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