On 5/2/07, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In the vein of the "Can't get resolution higher than 1280x1024" and "Another CentOS 5 oddity..." threads, I just installed CentOS5 w/Xen kernel on a Sony VAIO desktop with an nVidia NV5M64 (RIVA TNT2 64 Pro) card, using an old Samsung SyncMaster 700NF monitor.
Regarding the "Can't get resolution higher than 1280x1024" thread...I can only speak about my case and probably the OT's. The problem is two-fold. First, the monitor has a bug which causes delivery of incorrect EDID information to X when probed. It manifests itself when the connection is digital and the OS is 64-bit. Analog connection to the same monitor does not seem to suffer from this problem in either 64-bit or 32-bit. A possible workaround is to have X ignore the EDID data and manually set up the parameters in xorg.conf. I was not able to get this option to work. That is the second problem. Whether this is a bug in Xorg or in the nv driver (that I use), I have no idea. There was a thread relating to the EDID issue (unable to ignore) in the LKML in February. Akemi _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
