I tried using the free nv driver, but I always ended up with a large black unusable border around the edge of the screen and a small usable X windows setup within that. I didn't try pushing it to 1600x1280 with nv... I would love to see your XF86Config-4 file and see if I can get nv to work on my system with your settings.
Chris On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 04:21:46PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > Is there some reason you didn't use the free nv driver rather than the > non-free nvidia driver? While not "accelerated" I find it pleanty > fast on my Inspiron 8200, even playing DVDs. (This requires at least > Xfree86 4.2, so either sarge or a backport to woody.) I do like the > 1600x1280 screen, one of the main reasons I selected laptop. > -- Christopher H. De Vries Phone: (617) 496-7636 Postdoctoral Fellow FAX: (617) 495-7345 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 60 Garden Street MS-42 Cambridge, MA 02138 cfa-www.harvard.edu/~cdevries/
