Re: Will my graphics card support this?

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Andrew Robinson wrote:
I received a Dell 20 inch monitor for Christmas. It's native resolution is 1680x1050. Looking at my Xorg.0.log file, I find these lines:

(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(1): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(1): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(1): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(1): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)

Do these lines mean my video card will not support this resolution or that I need to do some configuration to get the card to support this resolution or something else entirely?

Well, I am not 100% sure, but I don't think this means incapable video card. I think the message would be different. I think what happens, is that since your display is LCD and all the timing settings it reports are just emulation (yes, we are still talking to the monitors as if they had a vacuum tube) it doesn't make sense to the X server (in this case, the reported horizontal sync range doesn't fit with the resolution). So, to make it work, I would try to force horizontal sync and vertical refresh ranges and then probably tried to come up with a reasonable mode line (sucks to be you if you will have to do this). Before that I would try a couple of shortcuts. First, backup your xorg.conf and try to configure X using system-config-display as was suggested. If that config doesn't work, try to run "X -configure" from command line and see if the config it generates will work. Then you can probably safely assume that shortcuts don't work and start tweaking xorg.conf by hand.


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