On Sun 17 Jun 2012 at 22:29:04 +0000, James Allsopp wrote:
> Hi,
> Got one of my old PC's lying around and I'm trying to get it to work
> with my nice new LG IPS225V flatscreen. It used to work fine with my
> CRT over VGA but although I can get a console up, I can't get X to
> start. I've listed the Xorg log out at the bottom of the e-mail
>
> I think it could be that the monitor is refusing anything other than
> 1900x1080 at 60Hz over which DVI, which my hardware hasn't a hope of
> driving. There doesn't appear to be any way of turning this down on the
> monitor.
>
> To get some idea of the hardware, this is the lspci
[Most of lspci ouput, apart from one line, snipped]
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX
> 5200] (rev a1)
You'll like this! On one of my machines:
brian@dektop3:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
(rev a1)
You can compare mine with yours:
brian@dektop3:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-1 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm
x 0mm
1280x1024 63.2*+
1024x768 60.0
800x600 60.3 56.2
848x480 60.0
640x480 59.9
VGA-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
TV-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
If I was in your situation and was after 1280x1024 I'd put this in
an /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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