X windows and gdm on Dell/fedora

[Jed]

Jed wrote:

> dmcglone at san.rr.com wrote:
>
>> Two questions.
>>
>> 1) I'm having great problems getting a new Dell Dimension 8300 (newly 
>> isntalled
>> Fedora Core) to run X windows (gnome). It has a Nvidia GEForceFx 5200 
>> card and
>> a Dell 1703 FPt flat panel monitor. When I try to run it I get a 
>> "Can't Display
>> This Mode" message.  I've changed the HorizSync and VertRefresh lines 
>> in the
>> XF86Config file to match those in the monitor's manual, but that 
>> didn't help.
>> I've also made sure the mode line matches the monitor's capabilities.
>>
>> I only have the default (nv) driver for the card, but I think I'd get 
>> some kind
>> of image even with that. So far no luck. Can anyone help?
>>
>> 2) That brings up question 2:  how do I keep the system from trying 
>> to run gdm
>> on startup. I'm able get out of it by pressing ctrl-alt-backspace, 
>> but I have
>> to that repeatedly and it's very annoying. I've looked through the 
>> /etc/rc.d
>> directory but I can't see what's trying to run gdm.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Mark Mcglone
>> dmcglone at san.rr.com
>>
>>
>>
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> I am running a Nvidia card with a Sony flatpanel connected to the DVI 
> interface.  I get that message when I dont tell the nv driver to use 
> the DVI output instead of the default VGA.
> Here are the monitor and video sections from my XF86config file.
>
> ======================
> Section "Monitor"
>        Identifier   "Monitor0"
>        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>        ModelName    "SDM-X93"
>        DisplaySize  380        300
>        HorizSync    28.0 - 65.0
>        VertRefresh  57.0 - 63.0
>        Option      "dpms"
> EndSection
>                                                                                
>
> Section "Device"
>        Identifier  "Videocard0"
>        Driver      "nvidia"
>        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>        BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
>        Option  "NoLogo"        "true"
>        Option  "RenderAccel"   "true"
>        Option  "ConnectedMonitor"      "DFP"
> EndSection
> =================
>
> Here DFP tells the driver to use the Digtal Flat Panel.  I didnt have 
> to change anything with the HorizSync and VertRefresh, I'd just make 
> sure they are within you monitors specs.  You shouldnt have to mess 
> with the mode line unless you are doing some funny resolution.  I only 
> had to do this with my Matrox Card on my Samsung DLP to get it to run 
> at a native 1280x720 resolition.
>
>
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whoops.  Im using the proprietary driver.  sorry.  If you can connect to 
your LCD via vga you might have  a chance.