Here is my nvidia xorg.conf. I have confirmed that the Horiz and Vertical rates are correct per my Dell monitor.<br>
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# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display<br>
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Section "ServerLayout"<br>
Identifier "Default Layout"<br>
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0<br>
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"<br>
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"<br>
EndSection<br>
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Section "Files"<br>
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# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the <br>
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally<br>
# no need to change the default.<br>
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)<br>
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of<br>
# the X server to render fonts.<br>
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"<br>
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia"<br>
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions"<br>
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"<br>
FontPath "unix/:7100"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Module"<br>
Load "dbe"<br>
Load "extmod"<br>
Load "fbdevhw"<br>
Load "glx"<br>
Load "record"<br>
Load "freetype"<br>
Load "type1"<br>
Load "v41"<br>
# Load "dri"<br>
EndSection<br>
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Section "ServerFlags"<br>
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "yes"<br>
EndSection<br>
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Section "InputDevice"<br>
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# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))<br>
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"<br>
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.<br>
# Option "XkbDisable"<br>
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the<br>
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.<br>
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:<br>
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"<br>
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:<br>
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"<br>
#<br>
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.<br>
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:<br>
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"<br>
# or:<br>
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"<br>
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"<br>
#<br>
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and<br>
# control keys, use:<br>
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"<br>
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:<br>
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"<br>
#<br>
Identifier "Keyboard0"<br>
Driver "kbd"<br>
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"<br>
Option "XkbLayout" "us"<br>
EndSection<br>
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Section "InputDevice"<br>
Identifier "Mouse0"<br>
Driver "mouse"<br>
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"<br>
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"<br>
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"<br>
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"<br>
EndSection<br>
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Section "Monitor"<br>
Identifier "Monitor0"<br>
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"<br>
ModelName "Unknown monitor"<br>
HorizSync 31.0 - 80.0<br>
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0<br>
Option "dpms"<br>
EndSection<br>
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Section "Device"<br>
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# Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT-0"<br>
Identifier "Videocard0"<br>
Driver "nvidia"<br>
VendorName "Videocard vendor"<br>
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic)"<br>
EndSection<br>
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Section "Screen"<br>
Identifier "Screen0"<br>
Device "Videocard0"<br>
Monitor "Monitor0"<br>
DefaultDepth 24<br>
SubSection "Display"<br>
Viewport 0 0<br>
Depth 24<br>
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"<br>
EndSubSection<br>
EndSection<br>
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Section "DRI"<br>
Group 0<br>
Mode 0666<br>
EndSection<br>
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On Apr 3, 2005 10:37 PM, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dewey Smolka</b> <<a href="mailto:dsmolka@gmail.com">dsmolka@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I hope this is not a stupid question, but is there any chance the<br>nvidia xorg.conf you're using is to drive TV only? Have you tried<br>hooking up the S-video and seeing if it works?<br><br>If you're not planning on going out to tv just yet, you might as well<br>keep your working xorg until you get the system configured and<br>running. Editing the xorg.conf file is not that hard as long as you<br>follow directions, but it's also possible to fry your hardware if you<br>make mistakes in modelines.<br><br>On Apr 3, 2005 9:21 PM, Larry K <<a href="mailto:lunchtimelarry@gmail.com">lunchtimelarry@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> All,<br>><br>> I have been struggling to get my nvidia environment set up according to<br>> Jarod's guide. Let me start by saying that altho I am relatively new to the<br>> Linux world, I have a pretty solid foundation to build on. However, this<br>> little project is doing very little for my self-esteem. :)<br>><br>> Here is my system:<br>><br>> Nforce2 Crush 18G IGP chipset +Southbridge MCP<br>> Athlon XP 2500+<br>> Geforce4 MX 440 AGP (S-video TV-out)<br>> FC core 3 kernel 2.6.10-1.770<br>> Nvidia 6629 driver<br>> Dell Flat Panel 1703FP VGA (analog)<br>><br>> When I run KDE with the default xorg.conf file (nv driver), things appear<br>> to work correctly on the Dell monitor. Having succeeded with that, I tried<br>> installing the nvidia xorg.conf, which is where the problems begin. When<br>> the KDE desktop opens, the icons are not painted correctly, and when I click<br>> on things, the display is *somewhat* garbled. I can normally see things<br>> well enough to do a shutdown, but that's about it.<br>><br>> I have experimented with about 1E10 permutation of settings, with varying<br>> degrees of limited success. I have tried various settings of the NvAGP<br>> option, to no avail. I have disabled ACPI in the system BIOS. I tried the<br>> mem=nopentium switch as described in the nvidia readme Appendix F. I read<br>> about blacklisting AGPGART via /etc/hotplug/blacklist, but didnt get too far<br>> with that one..<br>><br>> When I cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status, it sometimes says that AGP is<br>> not enabled, or some such message. At other times, that nvidia directory is<br>> not even there at all.<br>><br>> dmesg normally reports something like this:<br>> agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce2 chipset<br>> agpgart: Maximum memory....<br>> etc.<br>><br>> /var/log/messages reports something like this:<br>> nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA" taints kernel<br>> NVRM: loading nvidia 6629....<br>> NVRM: not using NVAGP, AGPGART is loaded!!<br>><br>> I have stopped progress at chapter 7 of Jarod's guide. I suspect I have<br>> some fundamental flaw in my AGP environment that I must solve before I<br>> continue installing.<br>><br>> So....Given my situation...<br>><br>> Would I be better off with FC 2 versus FC 3?<br>> What nvidia driver should I use? 6629?<br>> Do I want agpgart? Does this conflict with the nvidia driver? or<br>> complement it? If I don't want this, how do I disable it?<br>> What NvAGP setting do I need in xorg.conf? I think I want NVAGP (1).<br>><br>> What could be making it so difficult to get this nvidia xorg.conf to work<br>> properly? Eventually, I plan to use the S-video TV-out, but if I can't make<br>> the video driver work on a simple VGA connection, I should not tackle TV-out<br>> or God forbid, twinview! At least, not yet.<br>><br>> Please help before I go postal.<br>> Larry<br>><br>> P.S. Earlier this month, I had successfully built mythtv on a FC 2 setup,<br>> altho I never got TV-out or twinview set up properly. Then, in a moment of<br>> idiocy, I started over with FC 3, which is proving to be more difficult than<br>> FC 2, it seems.<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>> <a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>><br>><br>><br></blockquote></div><br>