On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:06:10PM -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:53 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:40:48 -0600 > > Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> opined: > > > I have a fully updated system with an nvidia FX 5500 video card. > > > It was working well with the Nvidia 1.0-7676 driver on every kernel I > > > have used. > > > > > > I recently updated to the latest driver (1.0-8174) and have a problem I > > > > The latest driver is 8178! > I just tried that one and it is the same as 8174 for me. > The driver refuses to use the specified VertRefresh for my monitor. > I had a similar problem, for some reason only after updating to 8174 and/or 8178 on a viewsonic VP191b. It appeared that the EDID information reported by the monitor wasn't valid for the resolution I wanted, so I ended up setting "UseEdidFreqs" to false and setting the refresh rates by hand. Alternatively, just switch to a different resolution (ctrl-alt-shift-numky+). HTH, Tim -- Morals? I eat communism and $h!t America, brother. --Seanbaby
