tnt2 vanta and dell 21"

[Anders Lennartsson <anders.lennartsson@sto.foa.se>]

Hi

I'm trying to configure X on a PII 300 Mhz dual proc with a Creative
TNT2 Vanta PCI card and running Woody.

X works in 1280x1024, but both xfree 3.3.6 xserver-svga and xfree 4.0.1
xserver-xfree86
have problem with stable picture in 1600x1200. The card should be able
to do this with 85Hz vertical
according to the documentation. In fact it is only 220Mhz pixelrate of
the possible pixelrate of 350MHz.
Even my old Millenium II can take the Dell 21" D1626HT to 1600x1200 but
with less colors.
The problem is for instance that if I click on the desktop the menu
(fvwm menu) comes up with an offset to the right
and is unstable and has stripes. The system however thinks it is located
close to the mouse pointer so there is some
guessing to choose the correct line etc. Bigger windows case even more
trouble.

Anyone got some input or experience of such a combination? What is the
quality of the xfree86 drivers for this card?
Should one try to compile the drivers from Nvidia's ftp site?

Anders