Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 28 February 2008 20:00:25 Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Here is a simple Vesa config that should work on most cards
and monitors,
I use it here at work during kickstart installs.
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "vesa" EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection
Hi, Ross. Thanks for that. It got me in, but at a horrid 800x600, so I ran system-config-display, setting it to generic 1280x1024, and leaving the vesa driver. Then I got
"out of range H.Frequency: 75KHZ V.Frequency: 60HZ"
Back into vi, and set the refresh rates, and eureka! I'm back in business. Is it worth trying the nv driver again, or should I leave well alone?
Thanks for the help. That config is going to be printed out for my "Emergencies" file. :-)
I really don't see a real need to use any of the stock drivers that ship with Linux since if you really want to use the acceleration features of the card you need the manufacturer drivers and libraries, so I always default to vesa. Maybe if your card doesn't support vesa (which don't these days?) or want multi-monitor support only you would use a stock driver but that's all I can think of
-Ross
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