> With the nVidia card X can't detect any details of the monitor and X > fucntions by default in just one mode/Vrate: 1280x1024/75Hz unless I > hand code other modes into the .conf file. > Is this normal behavior for nVidia cards ?
No. > Do I have to configure all of the modes and the monitor details by hand ? That depends on your X configuration program. You didn't mention distro. Go to nvidia's Linux driver page and follow your nose. For SUSE, that is follow the SUSE link. Or do it yourself. In principle, install at the minimum gcc, make, and your kernel headers. You may need the kernel source as well, depending on your system's packaging. Then download the driver file from nvidia, it's called something.run. Log in as root, change to runlevel 3 by running init 3, and run the nvidia file with sh somefile.run It'll ask you a few questions. Don't bother with letting it check the nvidia site for a precompiled driver. It'll compile its own and install it. Then you get to configure X with your system's configuration program. For SUSE it's sax2 -m 0=nvidia to make sure it uses the new driver. For others the saying is: consult your system's manual ;) > nVidia-driver is v. 1.0.8776 Get the latest one first. It has some security problem fixed. Of course, it may not compile on less than bleeding-edge systems. Welcome to the world of software engineering... HTH, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
