[mythtv-users] Ahh - Evil xorg and modelines
Damian Surr
damian at gingermagic.co.uk
Wed Jun 6 15:11:08 UTC 2007
> I'm running an Nvidia 5200 board, feeding a Dell 24" 1920x1200 monitor.
> Your xorg is missing Load 'dbe' in the Module section. (I don't think
> the 'type1' (font?) module would be the source of the problem.
>
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "type1"
> Load "vbe"
> Load "glx"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "extmod"
> EndSection
>
I've now added Load "dbe"
>
> This turns off a potential problem:
>
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "AIGLX" "OFF"
> EndSection
>
Thanks, Added
>
> The followig are the settings I ended up with after reading through the
> Nvidia Readme/help files. These seemed relevant to this setup here at
> work. (The Mythbox is a Via Sp13000)
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "GeForce 5200"
> Option "DPI" "100 x 100"
> Option "CursorShadow" "True"
> Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Centered"
> Option "HWCursor" "True"
> Option "NoFlip" "False"
> Option "NoLogo" "True"
> Option "NVAGP" "1"
> Option "RandRRotation" "False"
> Option "RenderAccel" "True"
> Option "UseEDID" "True"
> Option "UseEdidDpi" "False"
> Option "UseEvents" "True"
> Option "XvmcUsesTextures" "false"
> Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Videocard0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> Modes "1920x1200" "1920x1080_60i" "1280x1024"
> 1024x768" "720x480_60i"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
Not gone through many of those yet.
Can't get in with anything higher than 640x480 with current options and
when I log out of X, the screen is unreadable so I can't restart it with
verbos 5
>
> The module loading is reported in /var/log/Xorg.0.log so you should be
> able to check what happens.
>
I'll post the log without verbos 5
>
> Hope this helps.
> Geoff
>
I'm very appreciative for everyone's help. Just hope I can get somewhere
with it. I had a list of things I wanted to do with my 'computer day'
it's depressing to think it's almost over and I'm no further with number 1.
Damian
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