Ryan McDougall wrote:
Well I wish I had good news to report, but I don't. I tried to just add the line:Modes "1024x768" "800x600" To the config file and that did nothing, gave me the same result... blank screen then it goes to sleep. So someone from a forum suggested: Option IgnoreEDID On. Tried it, no luck. I don't understand why this is such a hard thing... This video Card and monitor worked fine in 7.3 but for some reason won't do what I want it to in 8.0. This has me quite frustrated, if I could only get this resolution thing fixed then I would be able to use this install for some web developement stuff.
This is truly strange. X thinks it's working. I wonder if DMPS is causing trouble? Still, it's acting like the monitor cannot handle the videomode you chose, and turns off to protect itself.
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display 0: maximum pixel clock at 8 bpp: 250 MHz (--) NVIDIA(0): Display 0: maximum pixel clock at 16 bpp: 250 MHz (--) NVIDIA(0): Display 0: maximum pixel clock at 32 bpp: 215 MHz (II) NVIDIA(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 30.00-70.00 kHz (II) NVIDIA(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-120.00 Hz (II) NVIDIA(0): Clock range: 12.00 to 250.00 MHz (**) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes for Display Device 0: (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1024x768": 94.5 MHz, 68.7 kHz, 85.0 Hz
Lets try forcing a lower vrefresh. James McArthur said the EV700 had problems above 85Hz.
And of course the XFree86Config file:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Gateway EV700"
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0
Option "dpms"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "yes"
#1024x768@75Hz (VESA)
ModeLine "1024x768" 78.8 1024 1040 1136 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync
(That should be one line)
> EndSection
You can get some other options from /usr/shar/rhpl/vesamodes
#grep 1024x768 /usr/shar/rhpl/vesamodes
it lists 85Hz, 75Hz, 70Hz, 60Hz and 43Hz( 1024x768i = interlaced)
I'm sure you don't want interlaced though.
Perhaps the older XF86 used a slower vrefresh by default.
The other option is to try the XFree driver (nv) instead.
That means uninstalling the NVIDIA packages, and
changing the driver from "nvidia" to "nv"
