On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:08:56 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote: Hello Stephen, > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:20:28 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote: > > Thanks, Stephen. That's very kind of you. I've changed the subject > > header, and removed references, so this should appear as a new > > thread; We're no longer doing kernel stuff. > I meant to do that myself and forgot. Thanks. You're welcome. I just hoped you'd notcie the new thread. > > (WW) NV: Ignoring unsupported device 0x10de0848 (C77 [GeForce 8300]) > > at 02@00:00:0 ... > The above is the most important entry in the log file. You have > an unsupported chipset. Therefore, the nv driver cannot be used True. What made me persist is that, when I run Xorg -configure, nv is selected as the driver. Obviously, the hope this gave me was a false one. > Chipset "G80" > in the "Device" section might work. I'm not making any promises. Unfortunately, it didn't, but thatnks for the tip. > If it doesn't, look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log for error messages. "Ignoring unsupported chipset" and "No screens found". No surprises. > Sometimes, if you give an invalid value for Chipset it will list > what the valid values are, and you may find something there that > is close enough to work. Sadly not, in this case. :-( > is to install the xserver-xorg-video-nv package from unstable, which > is newer and *might* support your chipset. Otherwise, you're stuck That opens up a whole can of worms for me. I'd rather not go that route. Even so, again, thanks for the tip. > best that the video BIOS can do. Since your monitor *does* support > DDC2/EDID, you *don't* want to use > Option "NoDDC" That got in there from experimentation based things you said in the other Xorg thread. Stupidly, I didn't remove it. Once again Stephen, thanks for your help. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" Loaded like a freight train flyin' like an aeroplane Nightrain - Guns 'N' Roses
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