On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:21:14 +0100 Michael Jarosch <riotso...@riotmusic.de> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 16.03.2009, 20:45 +0000 schrieb Folderol: > > My machine has an Asus M2NPV-VM Motherboard with Athlon 64 Dual Core > > 4200 processor. The monitor is a gnr F173 > > > > I've always had problems with getting 64studio to get this to give > > me decent screen resolution. It seems to want to only give 800x600. I > > never have a problem with mandriva, pclinuxos, mepis etc. > > > > With the older versions of 64studio I found the answer was to simply > > change the driver in xorg.conf to 'vesa' - probably a horrible hack but > > it worked. > > > > However I didn't expect to get the same problem with the latest and > > greatest, so am considerably disappointed. Now, however I can't use the > > same kludge as xorg have changed the way the config file works to one > > I don't understand. > > > > I really need a *simple* way to sort this out once and for all. To all > > practical purposes the system is unusable. Fortunately I put the beta > > on a spare partition I keep specifically for such trials, so am able to > > carry on working with 2.1 > > > > The xorg.conf works like the old version, but most of the configuration > now is autodetected. If you add a line with the driver it will be > considered. > > I googled for your motherboard to get some information about your > onboard-GPU. It's a nVidia GeForce 6150, right? So your monitor seems to > cause the trouble. I guess it doesn't support DDC and that's why > 64Studio can't figure out, what resolution or refresh frequency is the > correct one. > So maybe you should also add the vertical and the horizontal refresh > rates to use the "nv" driver, which is certainly a better choice. > > Greetings > Mitsch Thanks for your reply. I wasn't aware that I could still set parameters by hand. It seems there is more to this than just not detecting the monitor. As I said some distros do seem to be able to detect it and configure everything correctly. Also, just setting the screenmodes is not enough. I also still have to set the driver to vesa. Previously I found the nvidia proprietry drivers would work, but that then messes up RT stability, so I'm not going to bother with that again. Does the new version of 64studio have a spash screen? I get just a text start up until the login box. I've also set vga=791 in menu.lst -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list 64studio-users@lists.64studio.com http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
