[CentOS] Switch to Nvidia from ATI
Alfred von Campe
alfred at 110.net
Wed Oct 18 20:40:59 UTC 2006
On Oct 18, 2006, at 14:42, Jay Leafey wrote:
> Since you've already gone to the nVidia card it's a little late, I
> know, but one of my Dell workstations has a similar display chip
> (Intel 915G) and I was able to drive my Dell 2100fp at
> 1600x1200 at 60Hz by making a couple of changes in the xorg.conf file.
> Specifically, in the "Monitor" section I added a modeline for the
> that resolution with some different timings:
>
> ModeLine "1600x1200" 160.0 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201
> 1204 1250
>
> Then in the "Screen" section I added 1600x1200 to the "Modes" line:
>
> Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864"
> "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
That's good to know for the future. But how did you come up with
those numbers for the ModeLine entry? I played around with the
HorizSync and VertRefresh entries to no avail.
> It's not that hard, thankfully. You can specify the kernel version
> to the installer script, as well as just installing a new kernel
> module rather than a full reinstall:
>
> /usr/local/bin/nvidia-installer --kernel-module-only --kernel-
> name=(kernel version)
>
> For example, when the new kernel (kernel-2.6.9-42.0.3.plus.c4) came
> out, I just ran this command before rebooting to the new kernel:
>
> /usr/local/bin/nvidia-installer --kernel-module-only --kernel-
> name=2.6.9-42.0.3.plus.c4
I have not installed the nvidia-installer, but rather I run the
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-XXXX-pkg1.run script with the -s option (silent)
after rebuilding it with the --add-this-kernel option.
> It does require that the kernel-devel{,-smp} package be installed
> for the kernel for which you want to rebuild the driver, but that's
> not really a problem for me. I've been trying to figure out how to
> make this happen at boot-time before starting X, but haven't
> pursued it too hard.
I got this to work, but it was a bit of a hack. I'll contact you off
list with the details.
Alfred
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