Re: Low Resolution Problem

[Ryan Waye <rmw998@comcast.net>]

Ryan Waye wrote:

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>
> Subject:
> Re: Low Resolution Problem
> From:
> Ryan Waye <rmw998@comcast.net>
> Date:
> Tue, 06 Jul 2004 12:00:51 -0400
> To:
> David Reynolds <david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk>
>
> To:
> David Reynolds <david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk>
>
>
> David Reynolds wrote:
>
> > Ryan Waye wrote:
> >
> > > I have a problem with my XServer(I think).  When I installed debian, 
> > > I used the default "nv" drivers for my video card.  This was ok, but 
> > > it only allowed me to get my resolution up to 800x600.  In an 
> > > attempt to get it up to 1024x768, I installed the "nvidia offical" 
> > > drivers off of the Nvidia website (not off of apt, is that bad?).  
> > > This still just allowed me to go to 800x600, and actually looks like 
> > > it lowered the resoultion.  What have I done wrong/what do I need to 
> > > do?
> > >
> > > GeForce3 Ti200
> > > 2.6.6-1-k7
> > > KDE
> >
> >
> >
> > Did you set the driver in /etc/X11/XF86config-4 to be nvidia rather 
> > than nv after installing the driver? Took me a while to figure that 
> > one out. I believe the nvdia driver taints the kernel, whether or not 
> > you consider this bad, is up to you I guess.
> >
> > Dave
>
>
> I did set the driver to nvidia from nv, but I don't really care what I 
> use as long as I can hop up the resolution.
now that I installed the nvidia drivers, about 6 programs crash upon 
starting X.  I reverted back to the NV drivers, but the screen is still 
a really low resoultion(despite still being at 800x600) and the program 
crashes still happen.  How can I back off from my changes, or do I need 
to recompile to get a clean kernel?