Will my graphics card support this?

alan alan at clueserver.org
Fri Dec 29 17:15:44 UTC 2006


On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Charles Curley wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 10:37:58PM -0500, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>> Charles Curley wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 09:15:01PM -0500, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>>>> I received a Dell 20 inch monitor for Christmas. It's native resolution
>>>> is 1680x1050. Looking at my Xorg.0.log file, I find these lines:
>>>>
>>>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
>>>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Do these lines mean my video card will not support this resolution or
>>>> that I need to do some configuration to get the card to support this
>>>> resolution or something else entirely?
>>>
>>> Have you run system-config-display (as root)? It should detect the new
>>> monitor and let you make whatever adjustments seem appropriate.
>>>
>>> Just in case, back up /etc/X11/xorg.conf before you do so. Just in
>>> case.
>>>
>>>
>> system-config-display fails with a host of python error messages. Can
>> you tell me how to fix that?
>
> I cannot. I suspect that a copy of the error messages would help
> someone more knowledgeable than I. You might also indicate which
> drivers you are using, with version numbers.

Need the model number of the monitor.  You might need to add a mode line 
for that monitor.  It is not a resolution that I recognise.  The NVIDIA 
driver is pretty flexable though.

There is a modeline generation utility, but I cannot remember the name of 
it.  (My brain is still booting this morning.)

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