On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:37:23PM -0400, Dragoncrest wrote:
Not sure if this is something I did, or it's a limit of the driver
or the card. But I have a Nvidia FX 5200 I'm running and I tried
bumping it to 1400x1050 resolution with no luck. Same with
1600x1200. It seems stuck at 1280x1024 resolution and I can't get
it to go any higher. Do I need to bump my monitor refresh or sync
or anything like that? I'm kinda stumped on this. Any pointers
would be welcome. Thanks.
It could be a limitation of your monitor. Pretty much every monitor
these days supports EDID (Extended Display Information Data??), which
means that the video drive or card card probe the monitor for it's
specs. With this info in hand, X probably won't allow a setting that
would exceed the maximum specifications of the monitor. You should take
a look at the X log - probably at /var/log/XFree86.0.log and you'll
messages from X about why it didn't choose a specific resolution. Even
though it's not fully relevant these days, there is a HOWTO about 'X
Video Timings' that makes for a very interesting read over at tldp.org:
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO/index.html
Nathan
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