On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:31:20PM +0000, MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
As mentioned in my previous thread, I can't get my Video card: NVIDIA C73 [GeForce: 7100/ nForce 630i] to display 1440x900 on my CentOS 5.4 on my HP Pavilion with monitor Dell E198WFPV.
Googing around, I see that others have had this problem with the NVIDIA card. In one case, it was solved by gaining access to card parameters and setting them directly. I can't find a way to do this on my box.
One solution might be to just insert another video card in the bus, and ignore the NVIDIA. Would this work? I have a card that I know works.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Mike:
I have no experience with that card, but here are a couple of ideas that may help: --are you using a digital (DVI) video cable, or the analog cable from video card to monitor? If DVI, try the analog (VGA) cable and see if it allows you to select the resolution you need. (my new DVI monitor came with a note that said that some cards cannot select the right resolution when using the DVI cable, but will work fine with a VGA cable--though it worked fine for me with my nvidia card (9800GT)) --have you tried using xrandr to force it to the desired resolution? 'man xrandr' is your friend.
Fred