[mythtv-users] Ahh - Evil xorg and modelines

Damian Surr damian at gingermagic.co.uk
Wed Jun 6 12:44:01 UTC 2007


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).
>
> Mike
>   
Hi Mike,

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?

Damian


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