On Tuesday 19 February 2008 13:02, Johnny Hughes wrote:
You say that you bought a digital lead ... meaning I guess that you are using a different PORT on your video card and monitor. It is possible that he standard "nv" driver does not support that port on your video card and that you will need to instead download the proprietary drivers from nvidia's website to get that port to function. Regardless of which driver and cable you use, the resolution/freq of the screen is going to be the same ... why not just use the old cable :D
Hi, Johnny. Sorry for the delay in answering, but I was trying to make sure that I had a fair amount of time to work with the server.
Before I read your message I had the bright idea of seeing what knoppix thought about the monitor. The result was surprising. Attached is what it reported. I fed that info into xorg.conf and hoped. Unfortunately I am still seeing the blink from time to time, though.
Maybe you are right about the driver not handling the dvi port correctly. I really didn't want to go down the route of the proprietary drivers, so maybe I will have to go back to the analogue cable.
I will try your version this morning and let you know whether it helps. This is the last ditch. If it doesn't help, I'll change the cable back and re-run system-config-display.
Thanks again
Anne