On Tuesday 10 December 2002 10:01 pm, Todd Franklin wrote:
Wondering if anyone can help us out. My buddy's sister bought a new
Toshiba Satellite (1410-s173) which includes an integrated GeForce4 go
MX420. Problem: after loading nvidia drivers and making the necessary
changes to XF86Config-4, the display resolution in X defaults to
800x600, in other words, it only fills a small part of the display.
Using the stretch screen option in the bios, we were able to get it
to cover more of the screen but the quality sucks and it is still about
an inch off center so there's a large black area on the right of the
screen. Also, with stretch screen turned off, when you shut down X,
there is no output to the display. So no command line. you can type
startx or reboot and get your command to go. If we re-enable
stretch-screen we don't have that problem. The default mandrake
settings seem to run fine, but we'd really like to have the 3d chipset
enabled. We've tried a few from the Nvidia readme, but nothing's helped
so far.
Changing resolutions in either drakconfig, or directly editing the
XF86Config-4 file, seem to change nothing. It's like the nvidia driver
is overriding our settings. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Todd Franklin
Todd did you use the .rpm packages or the .src.rpm packages for the NVidia
drivers. You may be more successful using the src packages so that it
configures to your machine. I had problems getting the .rpm packages to work
on my desktop so try the source files. Kernel anyway, I don't think you need
to use .src on the GLX, the .rpm package seems to work for that one. HTH
--
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