On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, amerson wrote:
> I have an Apple Cinema 20" display running on windows. I tried installing
> RedHat Linux 8.0, got the newest drivers from NVIDIA. The screen's optimal
> resolution is 1680x1050 but right now, it does a stretched 1280x1024. In
> the XFree86Config file, the graphics card still has a driver of "vesa",
> chanigng it to "nv" causes the display to not work at all.
The "nv" driver didn't support flat panels until XFree86 4.3.0,
and the "vesa" driver can only do canned standard modes. I think RH 8
only has 4.2.0 or 4.2.1.
>
> any thoughts on how I can tweak XFree86 to accept this resolution?
You either need to upgrade to 4.3.0 (or newer) where the "nv"
driver will support flat panels, or you should use NVIDIA's binary
drivers.
For either you'll need to specify a custom modeline like:
Modeline "1680x1050" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
since XFree86 doesn't have any builtin 1680x1050 modes.
Mark.
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