Re: Resolution Help

2002-11-04 Thread Thomas Dodd
Ryan McDougall wrote: Well that did it, although I did use a different ModeLine, but it worked like a charm once I got it typed(copied) in their correctly. Oh thank you so much for your help you rock!!! All of you rock for your help on this situation!! I don't suppose you know what the break dow

Re: Resolution Help

2002-11-04 Thread Ryan McDougall
Wow nice little utility... My monitor though supports "User Settings" so it remembers positions and things for different user settings. But I wish I knew about xvidtune on an older system I had. > Try xvidtune. Play around, and then click 'show' to print to stdout the > line that can be used as a

Re: Resolution Help

2002-11-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 16:15, Ryan McDougall wrote: > Well that did it, although I did use a different ModeLine, but it worked like a > charm once I got it typed(copied) in their correctly. Oh thank you so much for > your help you rock!!! All of you rock for your help on this situation!! > > I don'

Re: Resolution Help

2002-11-03 Thread Ryan McDougall
Well that did it, although I did use a different ModeLine, but it worked like a charm once I got it typed(copied) in their correctly. Oh thank you so much for your help you rock!!! All of you rock for your help on this situation!! I don't suppose you know what the break down of the ModeLine is do

Re: Resolution Help

2002-11-01 Thread Thomas Dodd
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. Tri

Re: Resolution Help

2002-11-01 Thread dTd
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 00:57:55 -0500 (EST) "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are several tools for configuring XFree86 that exist inside > XFree86, and externally from XFree86, some of which are rather > obsolete, and some of which are no longer shipped for one reason > or ano

Re: Resolution Help

2002-11-01 Thread Ryan McDougall
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

Re: Resolution Help

2002-11-01 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Thomas Dodd wrote: >Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:07:54 -0600 >From: Thomas Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) >Subject: Re: Reso

Re: Resolution Help

2002-10-31 Thread Thomas Dodd
Tony Nugent wrote: On Wed Oct 30 2002 at 16:52, Thomas Dodd wrote: NVIDIAS drivers have not been properly rebuilt for RHL-8.0 yet. I just checked the web site and there was nothing new there. For what it is worth, the nvidia .src.rpm files recompiled just fine for me and seem to work very nice

Re: Resolution Help

2002-10-30 Thread Tony Nugent
On Wed Oct 30 2002 at 16:52, Thomas Dodd wrote: > Ryan McDougall wrote: > > Ok so I tried to use the xf86config but that screwed things up worse than I > > before, I don't think I know my stuff well enough in Linux to use that tool. I > > did install the NVIDIA drivers and they are working but not

Re: Resolution Help

2002-10-30 Thread Tony Nugent
On Wed Oct 30 2002 at 13:30, Ryan McDougall wrote: > Ok so I tried to use the xf86config but that screwed things up worse than I > before, I don't think I know my stuff well enough in Linux to use that tool. I > did install the NVIDIA drivers and they are working but not with resolutions > higher

Re: Resolution Help

2002-10-30 Thread Thomas Dodd
Ryan McDougall wrote: Ok so I tried to use the xf86config but that screwed things up worse than I before, I don't think I know my stuff well enough in Linux to use that tool. I did install the NVIDIA drivers and they are working but not with resolutions WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! DANGER WILL RO

Re: Resolution Help

2002-10-30 Thread Ryan McDougall
Ok so I tried to use the xf86config but that screwed things up worse than I before, I don't think I know my stuff well enough in Linux to use that tool. I did install the NVIDIA drivers and they are working but not with resolutions higher that 800x600 :-(. Thomas here are the things you wanted me

Re: Resolution Help

2002-10-29 Thread Thomas Dodd
Malcolm Hunter wrote: On Tuesday 29 October 2002 15:07, Thomas Dodd wrote: James McArthur wrote: Hi, Have you tried xf86config, and manually checking to make sure that you xf86config is not included in the Red Hat XF86 packages. See the beta (limo-list) archives. redhat-config-xfree86 is t

Re: Resolution Help

2002-10-29 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:16:35PM -0800, Ryan McDougall wrote: > Hey everyone, > > My problem is this, I cannot get my resolution any higher that 800x600. The > wierd thing is that I had it working in RH7.3 but after this 8.0 install it > won't go bigger than 800x600. Just to give some details I

Re: Resolution Help

2002-10-29 Thread Malcolm Hunter
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 15:07, Thomas Dodd wrote: > James McArthur wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Have you tried xf86config, and manually checking to make sure that you > > xf86config is not included in the Red Hat XF86 packages. > See the beta (limo-list) archives. redhat-config-xfree86 is > the _ONLY_

Re: Resolution Help

2002-10-29 Thread Thomas Dodd
James McArthur wrote: Hi, Have you tried xf86config, and manually checking to make sure that you xf86config is not included in the Red Hat XF86 packages. See the beta (limo-list) archives. redhat-config-xfree86 is the _ONLY_ tool included. vi/emacs/ still work though. On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 1

Re: Resolution Help

2002-10-29 Thread H M Kunzmann
Have you installed the nvidea drivers or are you still using the default nv driver for you card ?

Re: Resolution Help

2002-10-29 Thread James McArthur
Hi, Have you tried xf86config, and manually checking to make sure that you aren't setting some strange sync rate? AFAICR, the EV700 doesn't like frequencies above 85Hz .. maybe you're trying to set something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] James On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 14:46, Ryan McDougall wrote: > Hey e

Resolution Help

2002-10-29 Thread Ryan McDougall
Hey everyone, My problem is this, I cannot get my resolution any higher that 800x600. The wierd thing is that I had it working in RH7.3 but after this 8.0 install it won't go bigger than 800x600. Just to give some details I have a Gateway EV700 Monitor and a NVIDIA TNT2 M64 video card installed(st