Re: openSUSE 11.1, nvidia 9600 KO - resolution problems....again!

Thomas Tootle wrote:
Greetings,

[snip]

I've run sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia.
I tried copying the xorg.conf file from a machine hooked to the
identical model monitor, another 9600 nvidia card, running openSUSE
11.0 and that didn't work.

I had emailed myself with the xorg.conf file attached from this very
machine running 11.0. Resolution looked fine but the keyboard and mouse
wouldn't work. I had to reinstall after trying to get knoppix to restore
the back up copy I had made of xorg.conf before monkeying with it but
knoppix didn't recognize any hard drives (that was a new one on me but I
just reinstalled openSUSE).

I've had problems with my nvidia drive and the pae kernel in the past so
I deleted the pae kernel and loaded the default kernel. Then I loaded
the defualt nvidia drivers too. Still can't get the resolution to the
proper 1680 x 1050 @ 60


[snip]

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,
Tom

Hmm... It looks like a problem I had with a CRT monitor...

Have you tried to add the line:

Option "NoEDID"

or

Option "UseEDIDFreqs" "False"

or

Option "UseEDIDDpi" "FALSE"

or

Option "ModeValidation" "NoEdidModes"

(or a combination of them)
to the "monitor" section of the xorg.conf file?

Sometimes the monitor reports the wrong values when it does the handshake with the videocard, resulting in lock on a wrong resolution or refresh value.

You also, as a last resort, can feed the "raw" values of this monitor by using the next discription:

Option "CustomEDID" "string"

This option forces the X driver to use the EDID specified in a file rather than the display's EDID. You may specify a semicolon separated list of display names and filename pairs. The display name is any of "CRT-0", "CRT-1", "DFP-0", "DFP-1", "TV-0", "TV-1". The file contains a raw EDID (e.g., a file generated by nvidia-settings).

For example:

Option "CustomEDID" "CRT-0:/tmp/edid1.bin; DFP-0:/tmp/edid2.bin"

will assign the EDID from the file /tmp/edid1.bin to the display device CRT-0, and the EDID from the file /tmp/edid2.bin to the display device DFP-0.

I cannot be helpfull with this last setting, because I never used it.

Hope this is of any help to you...

John.
.

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