[mythtv-users] can't get nvidia to go at 50Hz

[Adam Burry]

> I have an Nvidia based motherboard with onboard graphics - it's a geforce
> 6100 or 6150 graphics unit (the manual and the PCI ID give differing
> accounts). Since I live in PAL country I want to run the monitor at a 50Hz
> refresh rate, but the card won't let me do so. The monitor is capable of it,
> and I can do it if I boot into windows, but neither the nvidia-settings
> utility (I'm using the 100.14.19 driver), nor the open source NV driver let
> me do that. Any ideas? 

Read the README for the proprietary "nvidia" X driver. For example: 
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/100.14.19/README/chapter-16.html

Hope that helps.

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Adam