Re: nVIDIA installation works....
Hi,
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> nVidia installation work...
> I did it with the flag --kernel-name='KERNEL_NAME' and i don't know why
> but that helped for me.
> Changed my XFConfig file and now i first have a nVIDIA screen before i
> get into gnome so i assume that it's working.
>
> Only strange thing is that my max. Resolution seems 1024x768 and it's a
> new system that can do more than that.
> In my XFConfig file i have higher resolution filled in but that doesn't
> do anything.
> Anyone an idea ?
>
perhaps your monitor can't do higher than that. Newer monitors have DDC
(some protocol that reports their sync ranges to the video card). Have a
look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log to see why higher resolutions are rejected.
greetz,
Sebas
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