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.
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