[mythtv-users] Ahh - Evil xorg and modelines

Bob Diss rldiss at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 16 01:36:37 UTC 2007


>Steve Smith wrote:
>> 
>> Damian,
>> 
>> 
>> I did a bit of reading. Maybe if you were to go
right back to basics 
and 
>> see what the NVIDIA can do on its own:
>> 1) Get rid of the modelines.
>> 2) Try specifying the resolution as "1024x768_60"
in the "Modes" 
line. 
>> The EDID suggests the monitor will support this.
>> 3) Don't put any of those "NoEDID" options etc in
there, let's just 
see 
>> if the NVIDIA can sort it out itself!
>> 4) Don't specify the horizontal and vertical
frequency limits either 
>> just see what the EDID gives us...
>> 
>> Do the startx --logverbose 5 thing and see what
happens....
>
>Right Steve, I did that.
>
>Here's my xorg lines:
>
>Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier     "BenQ W100"
>	Option "ModeValidation" "AllowNon60HzDFPModes"
>	Option "ModeValidation" "NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck"
>	Option "DDC" "False"
>EndSection
>
>Section "Device"
>     Identifier     "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce
FX 5200]"
>     Driver         "nvidia"
>         Option      "NoDDC"
>EndSection
>
>Section "Screen"
>     Identifier     "Default Screen"
>     Device         "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce
FX 5200]"
>     Monitor        "BenQ W100"
>     DefaultDepth	24
>	Subsection "Display"
>         	Depth       24
>		Modes       "1024x768_70"
>	EndSubsection
>EndSection

Damian,

Perhaps it's just a typo, but it looks like Steve's
suggestion was to try "1024x768_60", and your sample
here has "1024x768_70".

HTH




       
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