monitor experts, please

[Tony Alfrey]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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.
>>

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>>
>>  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.
> 


Thanks, but I googled some more and think I found the answer.  I needed 
to add Modeline to the Monitor section of XF86Config.  Several posts 
about the RIVA TNT2 said that people had problems getting wide screen 
monitors to recognize a resolution that was non-standard when the RIVA 
TNT2 chipset was new.  One HOW-TO at XF86org says that the newer 4.0.0 
version does not *usually* require Modeline.  There are a whole slew of 
parameters to this line but there are calculators on-line (you plug in 
the resolution you want and the vert refresh rate and horz refresh rate 
and it creates the line for you.  Then you put it into the Monitor 
section of XF86Config).  Something about the older chipsets not being 
able to probe the monitor to automatically set up the resolution.

So a little bit of effort but nothing exploded and things are headed in 
the right direction (circles now look nearly perfect; a tiny bit 
squished horizontally instead of very stretched)

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Tony Alfrey
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