Jed wrote:
dmcglone@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Two questions.
1) I'm having great problems getting a new Dell Dimension 8300 (newly
isntalled
Fedora Core) to run X windows (gnome). It has a Nvidia GEForceFx 5200
card and
a Dell 1703 FPt flat panel monitor. When I try to run it I get a
"Can't Display
This Mode" message. I've changed the HorizSync and VertRefresh lines
in the
XF86Config file to match those in the monitor's manual, but that
didn't help.
I've also made sure the mode line matches the monitor's capabilities.
I only have the default (nv) driver for the card, but I think I'd get
some kind
of image even with that. So far no luck. Can anyone help?
2) That brings up question 2: how do I keep the system from trying
to run gdm
on startup. I'm able get out of it by pressing ctrl-alt-backspace,
but I have
to that repeatedly and it's very annoying. I've looked through the
/etc/rc.d
directory but I can't see what's trying to run gdm.
thanks,
Mark Mcglone
dmcglone@xxxxxxxxxx
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I am running a Nvidia card with a Sony flatpanel connected to the DVI
interface. I get that message when I dont tell the nv driver to use
the DVI output instead of the default VGA.
Here are the monitor and video sections from my XF86config file.
======================
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "SDM-X93"
DisplaySize 380 300
HorizSync 28.0 - 65.0
VertRefresh 57.0 - 63.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"
EndSection
=================
Here DFP tells the driver to use the Digtal Flat Panel. I didnt have
to change anything with the HorizSync and VertRefresh, I'd just make
sure they are within you monitors specs. You shouldnt have to mess
with the mode line unless you are doing some funny resolution. I only
had to do this with my Matrox Card on my Samsung DLP to get it to run
at a native 1280x720 resolition.
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whoops. Im using the proprietary driver. sorry. If you can connect to
your LCD via vga you might have a chance.
