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Brian Chabot

Oct 11 2007, 07:04 PM

Just adding this as a tip, as it took me a while to get it to work, and even then it's not 100%...

With an nVIDIA MCP61V chipset mobo (on-board GeForce 6100) and an Acer AL1716W LCD, Mandriva 2008, I tried to get it to run in the monitor's advertized 1440x900 resolution. The screen is ugly in that mode and the monitor rwesets to some wierd 1152x870 resolution with the desktop in 1440x900 making it stretched wrong and vertically beyond the edge of the monitor.

I got it to work right in 1280x800 with the following xorg.conf:

CODE

# File generated by XFdrake (rev 228555)

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerFlags"
    #DontZap # disable <Ctrl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
    AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
    #DontZoom # disable <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
    Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
    Load "extmod"
    Load "type1"
    Load "freetype"
    Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard1"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse1"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse2"
    Driver "evdev"
    Option "bustype" "0x0011"
    Option "product" "0x0006"
    Option "vendor" "0x0002"
    Option "HWheelRelativeAxisButtons" "7 6"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "monitor1"
    VendorName "Acer"
    ModelName "Acer AL1716W"
    HorizSync 31-83
    VertRefresh 56-76

    # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]
    ModeLine "1280x800_120"  181.21  1280 1376 1520 1760  800 801 804 858  -HSync +Vsync

    # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]
    ModeLine "1280x800_100"  147.89  1280 1376 1512 1744  800 801 804 848  -HSync +Vsync

    # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]
    ModeLine "1280x800_85"  123.38  1280 1368 1504 1728  800 801 804 840  -HSync +Vsync

    # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]
    ModeLine "1280x800_75"  107.21  1280 1360 1496 1712  800 801 804 835  -HSync +Vsync

    # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]
    ModeLine "1280x800_60"  83.46  1280 1344 1480 1680  800 801 804 828  -HSync +Vsync

    # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]
    ModeLine "1280x800_50"  68.56  1280 1336 1472 1664  800 801 804 824  -HSync +Vsync
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "screen1"
    Device "device1"
    Monitor "monitor1"
    DefaultColorDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 8
        Virtual 1280 800
    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 15
        Virtual 1280 800
    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 16
        Virtual 1280 800
    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 24
        Virtual 1280 800
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX - GeForce 8800"
    Driver "nv"
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "layout1"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents"
    Screen "screen1"
EndSection

Hopefully this will help someone else out there. And if anyone knows how to get this combination working in 1440x900 I'd love to hear it.

[moved from Hardware by spinynorman]

scarecrow

Oct 11 2007, 08:52 PM

I think I have a better tip:
The GPL "nv" driver is a big failure. Use the proprietary "nvidia" instead, and I can bet your 1440x900 will show up just great.
Regards.

adamw

Oct 12 2007, 02:03 AM

Was the monitor detected as an AL1716W by Mandriva?

Brian Chabot

Oct 13 2007, 09:59 AM

QUOTE (adamw @ Oct 11 2007, 10:03 PM)

Was the monitor detected as an AL1716W by Mandriva?

Nope. The "Plug-n-Play" detection failed.

But as scarecrow said above, the proprietary nvidia driver also solves the issue.

Brian Chabot

Oct 13 2007, 10:00 AM

QUOTE (scarecrow @ Oct 11 2007, 04:52 PM)

I think I have a better tip:
The GPL "nv" driver is a big failure. Use the proprietary "nvidia" instead, and I can bet your 1440x900 will show up just great.
Regards.

You are 100% correct. Worked like a charm.

Looks like nv doesn't like 1440x900 with those refresh/sync rates.

scarecrow

Oct 13 2007, 07:45 PM

The "nv" driver is a PITA - this isn't a secret!
Factly, the generic "vesa" driver is faster for me than "nv" in pretty much any puter with an old nvidia card...
But if you are serious about your linux installation and want decent video performance, then you DO have to use the proprietary nvidia driver. Installation is rather easy, if you know what you're doing, and the performance boost is HUGE.

adamw

Oct 14 2007, 07:10 AM

Brian: can you run this command as root at a console:

monitor-edid --MonitorsDB

and paste the output here?

I can then get it added to the detection database for future releases.

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