Hi,
2009/8/7 Bharathi Subramanian <[email protected]>:
>> I want to change my monitor resolution to 1600 x 900.
>
> Apart from your display, your video card (linux) driver also need to
> support the above setting. Try to find the details related to that
> or post the video card info to the list.
Following is the information I have got. It took a day for me to learn these :-(
00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce
7050/nForce 610i (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Device 1407
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
Memory at ed000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at ee000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 40000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/0 Enable-
Kernel modules: nvidiafb
Driver installed is:
i xserver-xorg-video-vga 1:4.1.0-8
X.Org X server -- VGA display driver
Then I downloaded a driver from
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_173.14.20.html
and I tried to install it. I got the following error. The below is
from the error log:
Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> License accepted.
-> Installing NVIDIA driver version 173.14.20.
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for
your kernel.
-> Performing CC sanity check with CC="cc".
-> Performing CC version check with CC="cc".
-> The CC version check failed:
The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.1) does not exactly match the
current compiler (gcc 4.3). The Linux 2.6 kernel module loader rejects kern
el modules built with a version of gcc that does not exactly match that of t
he compiler used to build the running kernel.
If you know what you are doing and want to ignore the gcc version check, sel
ect "No" to continue installation. Otherwise, select "Yes" to abort install
ation, set the CC environment variable to the name of the compiler used to c
ompile your kernel, and restart installation. Abort now? (Answer: No)
ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel.
Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your
kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat Linux systems,
for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' or 'kernel-devel' RPM
installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are installed,
you may specify the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path'
command line option.
I was learning and experimenting to solve the problem "change my
monitor resolution to 1600 x 900".
But now I think, I am not in the right direction. Please help me.
Regards,
Joseph.
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