I had forgotten I had traded that particular card to a neighbor earlier this year for some extra harddrives so I had to borrow it back. Once I got it installed in the machine it had no problems rendering 1280x1024 and even higher using the "nv" driver on my (my wife's actually) Viewsonic A90 19" CRT.
uname -a supplies:
Linux biggun3 2.6.17-10-386 #2 Tue Dec 5 22:26:18 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
and the relevant part of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT]"
Driver "nv"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "A90-2"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT]"
Monitor "A90-2"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
And finally I put a screenshot of it up and working with "xvidtune" in the picture as well at:
http://www.illhostit.net/files/529/nvdriver.png
Best,
Jon Hoskins
http://www.illhostit.net/files/529/nvdriver.png
On 12/25/06,
Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
October:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:39:30AM -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:
>>> Greetings;
>>>
>>> I'm happy as a clam in mud with my new machine, but it's developed a
>>> problem. I purchased an inexpensive nVidia-based card that's starting to
>>> behave poorly. I think the hardware itself is buggy, the display will
>>> sometimes shudder rapidly side-to-side, blurring the screen view.
>>> Sometimes it stops and stays stopped, other times it goes on until I
>>> have to reboot. The problem doesn't appear to be a heating problem, but
>>> I've decided to go for a much better card anyway.
>>>
>>> So, I want an nVidia-based card with 256 MB video RAM and a decent
>>> cooling fan, preferably under $200. Any recommendations ?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> dp
>>
>> I've been happy so far with a Gigabyte GV-NX66256DP2, based on the
>> GeForce 6600. It's PCI-Express. Not a high-end card at all, it cost
>> $95 in April 2006, but so far works flawlessly, and it's fanless.
>>
>
> I have a 6600LE card, but I'm unable to run at higher resolution than
> 1024x786 with the nv driver. Can you do that?
>
> That will also depend on what monitor you are running and how it is
> configured in X.
Hmm, well. I have tried various things, and most of it works with the
nvidia driver, but nothing have so far worked with the nv driver.
> I've got an old ViewSonic A90 19" and a 6600GT that by
> default will run 1280x1024 @ 85Hz with the "nv" driver.
>
Thats impressive. I have googled around, have never not seen anyone
succeeding running a 6600 chipset with 1280x1024 using the nv driver
(many people compaining though).
Please mail me your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and the output of "uname -a".
That information might help the author of the nv driver to get it into
shape.
