[ATrpms-users] display resolution now stuck at 640x480x60Hz

Preet Khalsa preet at ecbit.com
Tue Apr 11 19:40:16 CEST 2006


If you have special modelines for your display and name them standard 
names (1280x1024) then you will lose that modeline.  Change it to 
something unique (1280x1024_samsung) and reference that name.  Then you 
should be OK.

This is known with 8756.

Preet


Jim Oltman wrote:
> I am having this same problem.  I am including Xorg.0.log.  I upgraded 
> my nvidia from ATrpms to 8756 and now i am limited to 640x480 when in my 
> xorg.conf i clearly have:
> 
> "800x600" "640x480"
> 
> If i take out 640x480, then it defaults to 1024x768 and looks aweful.
> 
> (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce FX 5200 at PCI:3:0:0
> (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kBytes
> (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.34.20.75.01
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 8X
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce FX 5200 at PCI:3:0:0:
> (--) NVIDIA(0):     NVIDIA TV Encoder (TV-0)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA TV Encoder (TV-0): 350 MHz maximum pixel clock
> (--) NVIDIA(0): TV encoder: NVIDIA
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: TV-0
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "800x600"; removing.
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
> (II) NVIDIA(0):     "640x480"
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 640 x 480
> 
> 
> I am pretty confused.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
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