Re: Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic [SOLVED]

[MLewis <cajun@cajuninc.com>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue,28.Oct.08, 17:09:40, MLewis wrote:
> > Maybe my monitor is too old. NEC MultiSync P1150.
>
> Could be. It would probably be enough to put the H-Sync and V-Sync 
> ranges for your monitor in xorg.conf.  Haven't done this in a while so I 
> can't give you exact details, but google should have plenty of examples.

Thanks much Andrei for the idea. I have another machine running with 
nvidia (a newer model) just fine. I copied the relevant portions to the 
machine I was working on, rebooted and all is fine.

Not sure why though the dpkg-reconfigure xsession-xorg didn't find and 
allow me to configure from there. Anyways, it's working properly now at 
1280x960.

Thanks much Andrei, Florian, Jack & Jochen for your help!!

For anyone else who finds this thread in the future, here are the 
settings as they are now:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Videocard0"
        Driver          "nvidia"

EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        ModelName    "NEC MultiSync P1150"
        HorizSync    31.0 - 94.0
        VertRefresh  55.0 - 160.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" 
"800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x400" "640x350"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

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