2010-07-16 09:49, Robert Bridge skrev: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Erik <esi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> (There are other issues with this video device; it shows only 25 × 80 >> characters in the virtual terminals (should be 75 × 240). This is the >> new Dell vostro|1720 from November, that replaced the old INSPIRON|8600 >> aquired 5 years earlier, with radeon driver. That old device worked fine >> without any configuration files. The physical screen size was detected >> and the virtual kernel output switched to 75 × 240 characters as soon as >> the device was detected.) >> > Hi Erik, > > It would help if you actually told us which driver you are using, and > what the actual hardware is. I'm guessing it's an nVidia card in the > new laptop, and some form of ATI card in the old one. It sounds like > the driver is over-riding the xorg.conf with (incorrect) readings it's > getting from the EDID for the display. >
My /etc/make.conf has VIDEO_CARDS="nv" but I thought it was obvious from the "NV" in the log message. The actual hardware is reported by lspci as "01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9600M GS] (rev a1)". I tried to use read-edid see what EDID shows, but the call failed (see other message). How would I know if xorg tried to read EDID and whether it worked?
