Re: tnt2 vanta and dell 21"
I've been though this with a Vanta. The Nvidia source is for 3.3.5 I
believe, otherwise you have the binaries (with stringent license). The
binary driver is unstable & liable to crash & burn with slight provocation
eg. ctrl-alt-Fx to a text console, or simply dying on startup.
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Paul Sims (wulfie@wulfric7.co.uk)
SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group
www.spirelug.org.uk
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Anders Lennartsson wrote:
> 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
>
>
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