Damian,<br><br>Whilst you at it you might want to change that -logverbose 5 to -logverbose 255. It gives even more particularly useful info...<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Damian Surr</b> <<a href="mailto:damian@gingermagic.co.uk">damian@gingermagic.co.uk</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;">
Steve Smith wrote:<br>><br>> Damian,<br>><br>><br>> I did a bit of reading. Maybe if you were to go right back to basics<br>> and see what the NVIDIA can do on its own:<br>> 1) Get rid of the modelines.
<br>> 2) Try specifying the resolution as "1024x768_60" in the "Modes" line.<br>> The EDID suggests the monitor will support this.<br>> 3) Don't put any of those "NoEDID" options etc in there, let's just
<br>> see if the NVIDIA can sort it out itself!<br>> 4) Don't specify the horizontal and vertical frequency limits either<br>> just see what the EDID gives us...<br>><br>> Do the startx --logverbose 5 thing and see what happens....
<br>><br>><br>> OR Did you see this....<br>><br>> "It's starting to point somewhere...<br>><br>> These types of lines:<br>><br>> WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to use mode "800x600" for DFP-0; cannot compute
<br>> backend<br>> (WW) NVIDIA(0): DFP timings (mode is larger than native backend 640 x<br>> (WW) NVIDIA(0): 480).<br>><br>> Mean it's decided to have a screen size of 640x480 so therefore it's
<br>> thrown everything out that's bigger than this.<br>><br>> Try adding:<br>> Virtual 2000 2000<br>> Under your "Modes" line, this sets the size of the desktop to 2000 by<br>> 2000 (far too big) which you then scroll around.
<br>><br>><br>> We're also getting:<br>> (--) NVIDIA(0): DFP-0: DFP modes are limited to 60 Hz refresh rate<br>><br>> So maybe we need:<br>> Option "ModeValidation" "AllowNon60HzDFPModes"
<br>> Option "ModeValidation" "NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck"<br>><br>> Instead of putting those options in one line? (Unless you've already<br>> tried it)<br>><br>> Also try putting those Option lines (the Modevalidation NoEDID etc) in
<br>> the "Device" section, see what happens then.<br>><br>> The grey background is normal for "startx" that's basically just a<br>> blank desktop screen with no window manager no nothing, but we're only
<br>> debugging so we're actually more interested in the log file!<br>><br>> Trying these things out and then post us your configs and Xorg.0.log file.<br>><br>> Cheers<br>> "<br>><br>><br>
> On 12/06/07, *Alan Calvert * <<a href="mailto:cal@graggrag.com">cal@graggrag.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:cal@graggrag.com">cal@graggrag.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Damian Surr wrote:<br>
> > Hello all,<br>> ><br>> > Have I done something so stupid that it's not worth responding<br>> to or are<br>> > we running out of things to try?<br>><br>> Yes to both perhaps. If you go back to the start of this thread,
<br>> and read<br>> _carefully_ through the responses you've already received, I think<br>> you'll<br>> find you've already been given all the advice you need to solve<br>> your problem.
<br>><br>> You seem obsessed with achieving 1024x768 (with great<br>> difficulty!), yet from<br>> your logs I suspect you'd get 800x600 happening ever so easily.<br>> Perhaps<br>> consider lowering your goals to 800x600 and letting it quietly
<br>> "just work".<br>><br>> > I've already wasted for more time than should have on it.<br>><br>> and you're not alone in that. Good luck.<br>><br>Great, thanks for that Steve!!
<br><br>I'll try all that when I get back to the machine in a couple of days.<br><br>Damian<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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