On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Matthew Wollenweber wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a p4 @1.8 ghz on an asus p4-t mother board. I'm running a
> geforce 4 ti 4200 graphics card and 512 megs of rambus ram. My monitor is
> a mag lt576s (15 inch lcd max res 1024x768. V:30-30, H:60-75)
The "nv" driver in XFree86 4.3 still has some problems detecting
which head a LCD is on. You may need to add:
Option "CrtcNumber" "1"
to the Section "Device" in the XF86Config.
>
> My os is redhat linux 9.
>
> I've been playing with this for a few days and I've had some success, but
> not on redhat.
>
> Using knoppix if i boot with the option fb1024x768 (setting the frame
> buffer) then it works. SuSE 8.2 installs in graphical mode but doesn't
> correctly detect my card once x works. but if i copy the XF86Config file
> from the one that awas used during install it works.
>
> now: redhat. no luck what so ever. If I use the default nv driver then my
> monitor complains the vertical sync is too high (and it is at 98hz) for
> some reason goes beyond what's indicated in the file. If however, i use
> the downloaded nvidia driver, i get no error. X starts and thinks that
> it's fine, i just get no screen. There is a warning comment though it says
> glXActiveScreens from /usr/X11....... is unresolved.
That's sounds like you didn't edit your config file to use the "nvidia"
driver like you were supposed to.
Mark.
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