Hi Tony,
Hope all is well mate. Sounds like a nice machine :)
Not sure if this helps much but I have an Inspiron 8500/WUXGA, with the
NVidia chipset as well. I think the chipset you have could be newer than
that in mine - however hopefully the binary driver from nvidia supports it
just the same.
I've got X running on my system at 1920x1200, attached is my XF86Config-4 file.
Hope that helps getting X up at full resolution. It's quite nice to work with
when you have that much screen real estate :)
Cheers,
Marcus
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:19:17PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> [ sorry if you got this twice- I sent it to debian-user
> first, by mistake :-( ]
>
> Just got a good deal on a Dell 8600 with a WUXGA display
> (1920x1200). Got it running at 1600x1200 with Xandros 1.0
> (Debian-based, the former Corel Linux, and apparently what
> LindowsOS is based on), but trying to get it to the full width.
>
> lspci says it has an unknown NVidia chipset...
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0324 (rev a1)
>
> Does anyone know if this chip is handled in the newer
> kernels (I ran 2.6.0 on my last laptop for a while, but
> can't seem to get xandros to come up off a customized
> kernel) or a newer version of XFree86.
>
> I've poked around tuxmobil etc, and there's supposed to be a
> NVidia driver, but it's not clear that it would work with this
> model, plus I'd rather avoid a proprietary driver (I've not
> been able to back out installs of proprietary software very
> well in the past).
>
> Any help (experience or speculation) appreciated, especially
> combos and configs (XF86Config-4 and kernel) known to work
> on this (a bit too proprietary in retrospect) beast.
>
> Oh, I'm running Xandros 1.0 but with a lot of stuff upgraded
> to debian testing. Any tips for vanilla Debian are also
> welcome, as I wouldn't mind switching back to that (I'm not
> getting that much use out of the Xandros added-value stuff,
> except for eye-candy, which is readily available elsewhere).
>
> By the way, Xandros' X startup seems to have a pretty good
> try-and-fallback startup system for X; I'm trying to figure
> out how it works.
>
> -- Tony
>
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### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the
# Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
#
# If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make changes
# before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after the
# "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below.
#
# To change things within the debconf section, run the command:
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
# as root. Also see "How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated
# XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?" in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz.
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Bluetooth Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Name" "AutoDetected"
Option "Vendor" "AutoDetected"
EndSection
#Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "USB Mouse"
# Driver "mouse"
# Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
# Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
# Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
# Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
# Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
# Option "Buttons" "5"
# Option "Name" "AutoDetected"
# Option "Vendor" "AutoDetected"
#EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "CursorShadow" "1"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
# HorizSync 31.5-120.0
# VertRefresh 59.0-85.0
DisplaySize 330 210
HorizSync 31.5 - 100.0
VertRefresh 30.0 - 90.0
Option "DPMS"
ModeLine "1920x1200" 162 1920 1984 2176 2480 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
Modeline "1680x1050" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Video Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1280x1024"
"1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1280x1024"
"1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1280x1024"
"1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1280x1024"
"1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1280x1024"
"1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
# Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Modes "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1280x1024"
"1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Bluetooth Mouse"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
### END DEBCONF SECTION
