2010/6/17 Thomas Vazhappilly <[email protected]>: > Dear all, > I have installed Debian (Lenny) Gnu/Linux 5.0.1 (Stable release I-386) in a > core2duo machine. > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100 GS (rev > a1) > +----------------------------------------------------+ > The problem is I dont get the display properly. When I change the > System > Preference > Screen Resolution it does not show any values. > I tried editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but got no hopeful results. > Anyone have any idea? Any help?
I think X server might be using vesa. Can you send /var/log/Xorg.0.log? You can try the nouveau driver, but it can be quite challenging. You can also try the squeeze live cd to see if it has nouveau driver. squeeze seems to have it in the repo, just try it out. http://packages.debian.org/testing/x11/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Root of this problem is NVIDIA is not publishing the specification for its graphics cards (Intel and AMD/ATI does, so for future purchases it is recommended to avoid nvidia). All we have is reverse engineered driver and proprietary driver they provide. You could possibly go that route as well. Fedora 13 also has nouveu by default, you can possibly try that if you ar eok to move to a different distro. Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
