Hi, My (uneducated) guess would be that you need the correct "Modeline" setting for your display, and possibly some xvidtune-ing. If the driver is starting at all, then it is hopefully playing nice with your card. Cheers, dstn. On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Hans Dahle wrote: > Looks like my life too a better turn to a better place... Read in a html > page I found that driver version 4496 doesn't work with the flat panel. They > suggested installing version 4363, and then it worked! Now it's just the > mouse that's playing havoc, but I think I'll manage that on my own. > > Hans Dahle > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Vojkovich [mailto:mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 24. oktober 2003 19:53 > To: Hans Dahle > Cc: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Hans Dahle wrote: > > > I've installed Gentoo on my (new) Dell inspiron 8600. The laptop has a > > 1680x1050, 15.4" display, and Nvidia Geforce FX 5650 Go card. When I run > > 'xf86cfg', or 'startx' with a XF86Config file made from the example + some > > copy'n'past from examples that have gotten the 15.4" display working, the > > screen get all messed up, can't make anything out of it, and if I change > to > > a system console I the screen still got some light blue (cyane?) small > bars > > over it, but I can read what it says. To get it away I have to do a > reboot. > > > > > > > > I've search through google with almost every possible search phrase. Found > > some examples on the config file with the exact same screen (WXSGA+), only > > difference that they're running redhat. I've tried to copy the whole > and/or > > parts of it (device, monitor etc.) > > > > > > > > Tried to install redhat 9, to see what config file it made for the > > installation process. Copied it over to my system and tried running it, > with > > the same result as above. > > > > > > > > Have installed the latest nvidia driver. > > > > XFree 4.3.0 > > > > > > > > So if anyone has a solution to my problem I'd be extremely happy. > > You can run the "nv" driver that came with XFree86 4.3.0. It > should work OK. If it doesn't let me know. It's usually just a > matter of tweaking an XF86Config file option if it doesn't > "just work" (sometimes it picks the wrong head and you have to > specify the "CrtcNumber" option as specified in the nv man page). > > > Mark. > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
