Ryan McDougall wrote:
> Well I wish I had good news to report, but I don't. I tried to just add the
> line:
>
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
>
> To the config file and that did nothing, gave me the same result... blank
> screen then it goes to sleep. So someone from a forum suggested: Option
> IgnoreEDID On. Tried it, no luck. I don't understand why this is such a hard
> thing... This video Card and monitor worked fine in 7.3 but for some reason
> won't do what I want it to in 8.0. This has me quite frustrated, if I could
> only get this resolution thing fixed then I would be able to use this install
> for some web developement stuff.
This is truly strange.
X thinks it's working. I wonder if DMPS is causing trouble?
Still, it's acting like the monitor cannot handle the
videomode you chose, and turns off to protect itself.
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Display 0: maximum pixel clock at 8 bpp: 250 MHz
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Display 0: maximum pixel clock at 16 bpp: 250 MHz
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Display 0: maximum pixel clock at 32 bpp: 215 MHz
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 30.00-70.00 kHz
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-120.00 Hz
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Clock range: 12.00 to 250.00 MHz
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes for Display Device 0:
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1024x768": 94.5 MHz, 68.7 kHz, 85.0 Hz
Lets try forcing a lower vrefresh. James McArthur said the EV700
had problems above 85Hz.
> And of course the XFree86Config file:
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> ModelName "Gateway EV700"
> HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
> VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0
> Option "dpms"
> Option "IgnoreEDID" "yes"
We can pull this out. and add a modeline
#1024x768@75Hz (VESA)
ModeLine "1024x768" 78.8 1024 1040 1136 768 769 772 800
+hsync +vsync
(That should be one line)
> EndSection
You can get some other options from /usr/shar/rhpl/vesamodes
#grep 1024x768 /usr/shar/rhpl/vesamodes
it lists 85Hz, 75Hz, 70Hz, 60Hz and 43Hz( 1024x768i = interlaced)
I'm sure you don't want interlaced though.
Perhaps the older XF86 used a slower vrefresh by default.
The other option is to try the XFree driver (nv) instead.
That means uninstalling the NVIDIA packages, and
changing the driver from "nvidia" to "nv"
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