Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy
On 04/23/2011 04:57 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
I thought this would probably happen eventually. And it did.
I use an Nvidia video card with a RIVA TNT2 chipset. My CRT monitor,
an IBM G51, has a maximum pixel clock rate of 70 MHz. In order
to get 1024x768 resolution out of this monitor I must use an
interlaced video mode. (There is a 1024x768@60 non-interlaced mode,
but the flicker level is unacceptable.) I run wheezy. And I am now
officially out of supported options for the X server.
I can't use the nouveau driver because the nouveau driver doesn't work
with interlaced video modes. I filed a bug report a good while ago. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589452
No response.
[blah blah]
I really did try hard to make nouveau work for me, but it just doesn't.
Bit rot is a sad, sad thing. Move to Slackware, DFS, Gentoo, go back to
Lenny or buy a slightly less trailing edge video card.
I know you don't have PCIe on your mobo, but the $34 (zero $ shipping)
GeForce 210 (fanless!) that I recently ponied up for to replace my 7300
decodes everything that I've thrown at it, as opposed to having the CPU
grind away.
Moral of the anecdote: sometimes it's good to upgrade to less trailing
edge kit even though the old h/w still powers up.
--
"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure
the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally
corrupt."
Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749
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