On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:54 AM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Sorin Srbu sorin.srbu@gmail.com wrote:
Did you get the latest drivers for your gfx-card from Nvidia?
FWIW, I have a same-rezed monitor as you do, and it works for me, both with CentOS and RHEL3, but I had to download and install the newest proprietary drivers from Nvidia to get that [weird] resolution working.
I am running CentOS 5.2 x86_64, kernel 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.nx (the nx means this is the stock CentOS 5.2 kernel plus NTFS read/write compiled in), nvidia driver version 173.14.09.
Still does not work. The boot screen, anaconda screens and boot progress screens and the login screen are all 1680x1050. But when I log in, I get the message "analog (d-sub)" fom the monitor, and the gdm screen is 1280x1024, no matter what else I do. My xorg.conf now only has the one mode in it (1680x1050), but that doesn't work, and system-config-display will change it to 1680x1050, but it doesn't stick.
I used to be able to fool s-c-d into using a generic CRT, but that doesn't work any more - ithe LCD 1680x1050 seems to stick, just not GNOME's ability to use it.
There has to be some little thing I'm missing here - is there any old setting file I need to remove or anything like that? I uninstalled the nfidia driver from dkms and removed all related files that I could find.
Oh, the monitor is an Emprex LE22A3 (21.6" 1680x1050 WSXGA).
mhr