On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Sounds like the card you're using has a VBIOS bug. You need to talk
to whomever manufactured the card, no one here can fix this.
Nope, it's the monitor. I got another one to try and it works fine.
Now I need to see if the monitor is still under warranty...
Thanks for everyone's help.
And just to put the final nail in this coffin, Samsung cross-shipped a
refurb replacement under the (3-year) warranty and it works perfectly.
From Xorg.0.log:
(--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce FX 5500 at
PCI:1:0:0:
(--) NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0): 135.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0): Internal Single Link TMDS
(II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0
(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) NVIDIA(0): "1280x1024"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "1280x960"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "1280x800"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "1152x864"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "1024x768"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "800x600"
(II) NVIDIA(0): "640x480"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1280 x 1024
(--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (85, 86); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
(--) NVIDIA(0): option
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
