Bart Schaefer wrote: > In the vein of the "Can't get resolution higher than 1280x1024" and > "Another CentOS 5 oddity..." threads, I just installed CentOS5 w/Xen > kernel on a Sony VAIO desktop with an nVidia NV5M64 (RIVA TNT2 64 Pro) > card, using an old Samsung SyncMaster 700NF monitor. > > system-config-display chose the highest possible resolution for the > monitor and Xorg did its best to drive it, but it just isn't quite > right... Since you're not going to be using the GUI much, this won't matter, but I was able to get my nVidia Quadro 4 running pretty nice (except for some of the fancier screenasvers crashing the x server...) using the binary drivers from RPMForge. Search the list archives for "NVidia Quadro4 200/400 NVS CentoOS 4.4" starting on April 5... Here is my xorg.conf file: # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister at builder3) Thu Nov 9 17:56:12 PST 2006 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "unix/:7100" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules,/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers,/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia,/usr/lib/xorg/modules" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "0" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/mouse" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" EndSection Section "Monitor" # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "DELL 1800FP" HorizSync 30.0 - 80.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "Quadro NVS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "1" Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: 1280x1024 +0+0, CRT-1: 1280x1024 +1280+0; CRT-0: 1280x960 +0+0; CRT-0: 1152x864 +0+0; CRT-0: 1024x768 +0+0; CRT-0: 800x600 +0+0; CRT-0: 640x480 +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection -- --- David Woyciesjes