monitor experts, please

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Close but no cigar.
>  Log clearly shows that NVIDIA driver is loaded.  But resolution appears
>  to be different than what I select in XF86Config and circles are still
>  not round.
>
>  Here is what I think is the relevant XF86Config part:
>
>
>  Section "Monitor"
>    Option       "CalcAlgorithm" "CheckDesktopGeometry"
>    DisplaySize  430 270
>    HorizSync    32-84
>    Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
>    ModelName    "AL2016W"
>    Option       "DPMS"
>    VendorName   "ACER"
>    VertRefresh  56-75
>    UseModes     "Modes[0]"
>  EndSection
>
>
>  Section "Modes"
>    Identifier   "Modes[0]"
>  EndSection
>
>
>  Section "Screen"
>    DefaultDepth 24
>    SubSection "Display"
>      Depth      24
>      Modes      "1680x1050" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>    EndSubsection
>
>
>
>  Log says
>
>  (II) NVIDIA(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
>  (II) NVIDIA(0): clock: 146.2 MHz   Image Size:  433 x 271 mm
>  (II) NVIDIA(0): h_active: 1680  h_sync: 1784  h_sync_end 1960
>  h_blank_end 2240 h_border: 0
>  (II) NVIDIA(0): v_active: 1050  v_sync: 1053  v_sync_end 1059
>  v_blanking: 1089 v_border: 0
>  (II) NVIDIA(0): Ranges: V min: 56  V max: 77 Hz, H min: 31  H max: 84
>  kHz, PixClock max 170 MHz
>  .
>  .
>
>
>  But then further on it says
>
>  .
>  .
>  (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "1680x1050" (no mode of this name)
>  .
>  .
>  .
>  (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1152x864"
>
>
>  So Lonni or anyone, can you suggest what I might be missing?

generate an nvidia-bug-report.log that includes the verbose X log, and
send it my way.


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