[Linux-users] Wide Screen problems with nVidia

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 8/4/07, Ben Duncan <linux4ms at aim.com> wrote:
> Ok, Just bought a Acre AL2223W 22" Wide Screen LCD panel and am trying to
> get it work right.
>
> Here is my lspci on the nVidia video card:
>
> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6200] (rev
> a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>          Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 030c
>          Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 20
>          Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>          Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>          Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>          [virtual] Expansion ROM at e6000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>          Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
>          Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
>
> I am running this version of the nVidia driver:
>
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755-pkg1.run

1.0-9755 hasn't been supported in quite a while.

>
> Any suggestion on getting this thing to work in 1280 x 768 or
> 1440 x 990 wide screen mode ?

I'm assuming that you've explicitly requested those modes in your
xorg.conf and its not working?  If so, then you'll need to start X
with the following command:
startx -- -logverbose 6

and then generate and send me an nvidia-bug-report.log


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