Using DVI LCD monitors in fedora

[John Davin]

Oh, oops... apparently this was a case of me needing to be told RTFM. :)
I forgot to switch the driver from "nv" to "nvidia", so that's why DVI 
wasn't working.
All set now.
Thanks for your help.

-John

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Colin J Thomson wrote:

> On Sunday 10 Oct 2004 18:52, John Davin wrote:
>
>> I recently installed Fedora Core 2, and expected that DVI monitor support
>> would be something that would work "out of the box" since it's such a
>> common feature now.
>> But it doesn't work - I can get console on DVI, but when I start X, I
>> just get a blank screen - or sometimes it goes berserk and starts
>> flashing weird gray static.
>>
>> My graphics card is a GeForceFX 5200, and I have installed the Nvidia
>> driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run).
>
> Assuming you made the necessary changes to your xorg.conf as mentioned in
> the NVidia Readme??
> Most importantly changing the driver in xorg.conf from "nv" to "nvidia", and
> maybe change the frequency settings to match your Panel.
>
> You "may" need to add these couple of lines to your xorg.conf, I had to do
> this to get my DVI to work:
>
> Option      "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0"
>
> #       Cure Blank Console screens
> Option      "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "TV"
>
> The last one fixes Blank console screens on some Fedora setup's, Some output
> from your X logs may shed some light on the problem.
>
> HTH
>
> Colin
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