nv driver vs lcd, nv 1, lcd 0

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 28 January 2008, Ben Skeggs wrote:
>Am Montag, den 28.01.2008, 19:24 -0500 schrieb Gene Heskett:
>> On Monday 28 January 2008, Aaron Plattner wrote:
>> >On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:07:11PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> Greetings;
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone have a clue how to get the nv driver to run a 1680x1050
>> >> wide screen lcd monitor?  All I can get is an absolutely butt fugly
>> >> 800x600 that looks like a 5% jpg.  Unusable.
>> >
>> >If you're using a G80 or newer GPU, please attach Xorg.0.log.  If you're
>> >using an earlier GPU, please see
>> >https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3654
>> >
>> >-- Aaron
>>
>> I have NDI what the acronym you are using means, sorry.  The card is a
>> 3DFORCE-6200.
>
>That would be a pre-G80 chip, which NVIDIA can't/won't fix for whatever
>reason.  However, there's a chance nouveau may be able to drive your
>panel at the correct resoultion with its randr1.2 support.  That is, if
>you're willing to use an "unfinished" driver :)

The NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.09-pkg1 binary driver works flawlessly.  I have long 
ago written a script and figured out how to make it build the module for a 
new kernel that doesn't have one made for it yet, launched as the last line 
in my rc.local script.  If its just a reboot, the module will already be 
there and the script tells me its already installed and exits gracefully.

Copies on request. :)

>To try it:
>- Install nouveau (http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallNouveau)
>- Change "nv" to "nouveau" in xorg.conf
>- Add 'Option "Randr12" "true"' to driver section of xorg.conf
>
>There's usually someone around on #nouveau on freenode to assist if you
>run into bugs / installation issues.
>
>Hopefully that helps you :)
>Ben.



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