On Wednesday 11 December 2002 04:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Wednesday 11 December 2002 09:19 pm, Todd Franklin wrote: > > This turned out to be the answer. For some reason the flat panel > > display in the laptop was reporting 800x600, which overides the > > specified 1024x768 in the XF86Config-4. This option fixed the problem. > > Full screen and beautiful. > > > > Todd Franklin > > > > > > Option "IgnoreEDID" "boolean" > > Disable probing of EDID (Extended Display Identification > > Data) from your monitor. Requested modes are compared > > against values gotten from your monitor EDIDs (if any) > > during mode validation. Some monitors are known to lie > > about their own capabilities. Ignoring the values that > > the monitor gives may help get a certain mode validated. > > On the other hand, this may be dangerous if you don't > > know what you are doing. Default: Use EDIDs. > > > > Todd Franklin wrote: > > > yep we did use the source rpms. both kernel and glx to be safe. Have > > > used them many times myself on desktop systems with various nVida > > > cards ranging from tnt2 to GeForce 4. This problem seems to be more > > > specific to the GeForce go and/or the flat panel display on the > > > toshiba. > > > > > > Thanks for your quick reply though, it's really appreciated. > > > > > > Todd > > > > > > Dennis Myers wrote: > > >>On Tuesday 10 December 2002 10:01 pm, Todd Franklin wrote: > > >>>Wondering if anyone can help us out. My buddy's sister bought a new > > >>>Toshiba Satellite (1410-s173) which includes an integrated GeForce4 go > > >>>MX420. Problem: after loading nvidia drivers and making the > > >>> necessary changes to XF86Config-4, the display resolution in X > > >>> defaults to 800x600, in other words, it only fills a small part of > > >>> the display. Using the "stretch screen" option in the bios, we were > > >>> able to get it to cover more of the screen but the quality sucks and > > >>> it is still about an inch off center so there's a large black area on > > >>> the right of the screen. Also, with "stretch screen" turned off, > > >>> when you shut down X, there is no output to the display. So no > > >>> command line. you can type startx or reboot and get your command to > > >>> go. If we re-enable "stretch-screen" we don't have that problem. > > >>> The default mandrake settings seem to run fine, but we'd really like > > >>> to have the 3d chipset enabled. We've tried a few from the Nvidia > > >>> readme, but nothing's helped so far. > > >>>Changing resolutions in either drakconfig, or directly editing the > > >>>XF86Config-4 file, seem to change nothing. It's like the nvidia > > >>> driver is overriding our settings. Any suggestions would be > > >>> appreciated. > > >>> > > >>>Todd Franklin > > >> > > >>Todd did you use the .rpm packages or the .src.rpm packages for the > > >> NVidia drivers. You may be more successful using the src packages so > > >> that it configures to your machine. I had problems getting the .rpm > > >> packages to work on my desktop so try the source files. Kernel anyway, > > >> I don't think you need to use .src on the GLX, the .rpm package seems > > >> to work for that one. HTH > > >> > > >> > > >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>- > > >> > > >>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > >>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Great! Glad to see you got it. Now I won't worry about getting a Toshiba > for my first laptop. Thanks for coming back to the list with the solution. Bummer, I didn't reset the clock after booting and haven't got it to lock down on the right time so the last message I sent probably looks like I sent it 6 hours ago. My bad. Anyone know how to reset clock to permenant status, I think I selected the GMT sync with this install, and maybe shouldn't have? -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842
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