[mythtv-users] Ahh - Evil xorg and modelines

Damian Surr damian at gingermagic.co.uk
Wed Jun 6 14:02:34 UTC 2007


I had high hopes for a minute then.

I'm now using:

Option "NoEdidModes"
Option "AllowNon60HzDFPModes"
Option "NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck"

But still can't get anything other than 800x600 at 60Hz to come up.

It's driving me insane!

Damian

Steve Smith wrote:
> There's also "NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck"
>
> Which might help too...
>
>
> On 06/06/07, *Michael T. Dean* < mtdean at thirdcontact.com 
> <mailto:mtdean at thirdcontact.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 06/06/2007 08:44 AM, Damian Surr wrote:
>     > Michael T. Dean wrote:
>     >
>     >> On 06/06/2007 08:04 AM, Damian Surr wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> Here's my Xorg.0.log. Does it suggest anything to those of you
>     that
>     >>> understand this kind of thing?
>     >> ...
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to validate any modes; falling back to the
>     >>> default mode
>     >>> (WW) NVIDIA(0):     "nvidia-auto-select".
>     >>> (WW) NVIDIA(0):
>     >>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
>     >>> (II) NVIDIA(0):     "nvidia-auto-select"
>     >>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 800 x 600
>     >>> (WW) NVIDIA(0): BenQ W100 (DFP-0)'s EDID does not contain a
>     maximum image
>     >>> (WW) NVIDIA(0):     size; cannot compute DPI from BenQ W100
>     (DFP-0)'s EDID.
>     >>> (==) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (75, 75); computed from built-in
>     default
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>
>     http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Specifying_DPI_for_NVIDIA_Cards .
>     >> Pay particular attention to all the EDID-related options
>     (including
>     >> ModeValidation).
>     >>
>     > I intended to get to setting the DPI properly once I'd got the
>     actual
>     > resolution working. That sounded like the best way to do it to
>     me rather
>     > than changing too many things at once. Are you sugesting that
>     the DPI
>     > not being correct is the reason why the resolution isn't working?
>
>     I'm saying if you read the page to which I linked you'll notice
>     there's
>     a lot more information on there than just how to set the DPI for
>     NVIDIA
>     cards.  It's really more of a "Some really-important options for
>     NVIDIA
>     card users, without which you're unlikely to be able to use X at the
>     DPI, resolution, and refresh rate which is most appropriate for
>     your TV"
>     page.
>
>     Don't just a book by it's cover.
>
>     Mike
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