Hi, I am new to the list, and I have found it after looking around trying to get the X serverFInally I got it ... thanks to the archive at
up and running on my new laptop. As other mailings to this list have reported, in order to
get the server running on the 1400x1050 screen you must get the driver from Nvidia, and
set it as "nvidia" driver with sax, then you can get acceleration, and a very nice crisp screen.
......
But there is a twist I do not know how to figure out, if I reboot the machine the X server is
stuck again, after saving the settings obviously. The screen is just black. The laptop is
connected to the network at the moment, so I have tried to see what the problems are,
and found that there is a junk X server running, sort of, if I kill the process the nvidia
driver starts, I get the nvidia logo on screen, and then the server is up right away functional,
crispy and with 1400x1050 resolution.
Does anybody have any idea on how to go about of finding out what is going on, and how to
fix it ?
Ciao
http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@xxxxxxxxxx/msg14592.html and with some help from this list ...
the trick is to set the
Option "NvAGP" "0"
for the nvidia card, so that the XF86Config it looks now like:
Section "Monitor" Option "CalcAlgorithm" "CheckDesktopGeometry" DisplaySize 320 240 HorizSync 30-90 Identifier "Monitor[0]" ModelName "1400X1050@60HZ" VendorName "--> LCD" VertRefresh 40-60 UseModes "Modes[0]" EndSection
Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" Modeline "1400x1050" 114.41 1400 1416 1704 1944 1050 1050 1060 1097 Modeline "1280x1024" 102.24 1280 1296 1552 1736 1024 1024 1033 1070 Modeline "1280x960" 95.85 1280 1296 1552 1736 960 960 968 1003 Modeline "1152x864" 77.55 1152 1168 1384 1568 864 864 871 902 Modeline "1024x768" 61.19 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 775 802 Modeline "800x600" 37.44 800 816 928 1072 600 600 605 626 Modeline "640x480" 23.96 640 656 720 864 480 480 484 501 EndSection
......
Section "Device"
BoardName "GeForce FX 5800 Ultra"
BusID "1:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Screen 0
Option "TwinView"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "28-61"
Option "SecondMonitorVerticalRefresh" "48-65"
Option "MetaModes" "1400x1050,1024x768;1280x1024,1024x768;1024x768,1024x768"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "lcd,lcd"
Option "Rotate" "off"
Option "NvAGP" "0" <<<<<<<<< This is it ! :-)
VendorName "NVidia"
EndSection
B.T.W. The brand number GRT816M (Unknown to Sony) correspond to the italian keyboard. I have tried also RedHat 9.0, same problem obviously, so this trick should solve both.
Ciao
FB
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