Re: What's the deal with nVidia cards on install?

[David Krider]

Chris Kloiber wrote:
>

Easy. The "nv" driver doesn't work with all nVidia cards, and those that
are known to be problems, as well as those that just aren't known at
all, will use "vesa" by default.
Furthermore, I have found that "vesa" only works in certain combinations
of resolutions and color depths that are preprogrammed into the card's
video bios, and may not go beyond 1024x768x16bpp (although they should)
If you check /var/log/XFree86.X.log you will probably notice what the
card supports listed in there.

Thanks, Chris. I never thought to check the output. I just figured it was "broke" and moved on. And I also didn't think about the possibility that VESA was limited in terms of resolution and color depth. In retrospect, that would certainly make sense, given the timeframe that VESA was a popular way of running a video card...

dk

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