On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 17:00 -0500, David Niemi wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Curley" <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:26:20PM -0500, David Niemi wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 11:30 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:38:17AM -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote: > > > > On 1/19/06, David Niemi <drn_temp2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > To resolve an offset screen annoyance I am trying the nVidia driver from > > > > > the nVidia site. Installation goes fine, I made requisite changes to > > > > > xorg.conf but when I boot I get nothing displayed on my LCD Screen. > > > > > > > > > As far as your offset screen problem, can you adjust it with the > > > > controls on the LCD display? Is there an autodetect or reset button? > > > > Can you force the nv driver to drive the display differently? Is the > > > > display running over VGA or DVI? > > > > > > xvidtune is your friend. > > > > Neat, all this stuff that gets installed that we have no idea about! > > > > Do you know of any good web sites for using this with FC4? I have the > > man page and many Google hits are for FC 1, 2, 3 with some problems > > about saving the settings, etc. I'll keep searching anyway. > > Not off-hand. I've been using it for so long, my age is showing. :-) > Do make a backup of your xorg.conf file (or whatever it's called this > week). Thanks for the warning Rickey but xvidtune was a bust. It gives me the message that this chipset is not tunable. Oh, well, continue trying and hoping that nVidia comes out with support forth chipset in Linux.
