Alfred von Campe wrote: > Well, we don't use 3D, but we ended up using the nvidia driver so we > could drive the LCD monitor at its native resolution and frequency > (1600x1200 @ 60Hz). I first tried using the onboard video chip (Intel > 9XX) on our workstations, but it couldn't drive 1600x1200 at the right > frequency. I then purchased some inexpensive nVidia GeForce 6200 cards, > but I had to install the nVidia driver for them to work properly at > 1600x1200 using the DVI connector (I forgot exactly what the problem > was). But installing the nVidia driver solved all the problems. 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" Les filling, tastes great! > The only issue is that I have to re-install the driver whenever there is > a new kernel. I haven't dug deep enough to figure out how to install > the driver in a newly installed but not yet running kernel. I usually > just manually change the runlevel to 3 at boot time, install the driver, > and then switch to runlevel 5. But that requires physical access to > each workstation. Since there is a new kernel waiting to be installed > by yum at the moment, maybe I will take the time to figure out how to do > this now. I did manage to hijack the firstboot mechanism, so that after > I kickstart a system it automatically installs the driver before going > to runlevel 5. 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 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. Hope that helps! -- Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN jay.leafey at mindless.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5177 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061018/0d89b4a8/attachment-0005.bin>