Re: monitor detection maybe not working

[Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com>]

On 07/02/2011 02:05 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:22:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
>
> > I'm running sid.
> >
> > My monitor stopped going to the correct resolution some upgrades ago.  I
> > have an
> >
> > nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3).
> Which VGA driver are you using?

Whatever nvidia-kernel-dkms left me with.  Is there an easy way to tell 
which driver is active?


> Nvidia closed driver provides "nvidia-settings" app to manage the basics
> of the card.

Running this now gives me a dialog box which tells me I am not using the 
NVIDIA X driver and that I should run nvidia-xconfig.  This tells me I 
need to fix xorg.conf which I will do later today.
> Also, better if you upload your full "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" somewhere,

I will do that soon but I believe it will show you that read-edid is not 
reading my monitor info correctly which is why I started this thread.
> just in case.

Thanks,

Paul