Hardware Question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:49:08PM -0400, Stephen W. Clarke wrote:
> Part of the reason my refresh rate is sucking is that I couldn't get xorg
> to run (in Puppy) with this video card (TNT2) so I've been using Xvesa
> which near as I can tell doesn't allow for changing the refresh rate.
> 
> I can get xorg to run with ubuntu 7.10 but can only get 800x600
> resolution. As a result most of the time I'm using puppy.

The 'nv' driver should run that card perfectly.  Vesa certainly won't
work well since vesa always picked shitty refresh rates for their modes.

As long as you do not boot with the console using some graphical mode,
you should be able to configure X to just use the nv driver and run at
1600x1200 and it should probably even pick up DDC info from the monitor
and pick the right refresh rate by itself.

If you want you can include the xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log in a message
and I can have a look at it.

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