(This is somewhat minor, and still somewhat annoying.) One way or another, the communication between my monitor, IBM P260, and my box doesn't work, and I need an xorg.conf to help out:
[i] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is (II) NVIDIA(0): enabled. (WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Unable to read EDID for display device CRT-0 (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM) (NV44) at PCI:2:0:0 (II) NVIDIA(0): (GPU-0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 262144 kBytes (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.44.02.41.00 (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM) at (--) NVIDIA(0): PCI:2:0:0: (--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-0 (--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-0: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: CRT-0 (==) NVIDIA(0): (==) NVIDIA(0): No modes were requested; the default mode "nvidia-auto-select" (==) NVIDIA(0): will be used as the requested mode. (==) NVIDIA(0): (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes: (II) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select" (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1024 x 768 (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device CRT-0's EDID; cannot compute DPI (WW) NVIDIA(0): from CRT-0's EDID. (==) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (75, 75); computed from built-in default [/i] Without xorg.conf, I can only select a maximal resolution of much less than my usual 1600x1200 at 85Hz. Neither the Nvidia-applet nor the Gnome applet offer anything close to it. I do understand why, and offer a very basic xorg.conf to inform the card about the abilities of the monitor, so I have 3 sections: Monitor, Device, Screen; where the latter 2 are as good as empty. (Removing either results in a crash, for whatever reasons.) Now, whenever X starts, it will start in 1024x768, at 60 Hz. That's fine for logging in, but later, it hurts. So I adjust the resolution to 1600x1200 at 85 Hz with the NVIDIA-applet. Thanks to the info in xorg.conf, it will allow for it. Alas, it cannot store this, whatever I tried, because at its next start, X will find no EDID-info and again come up with 1024x768. To be repeated. My questions: 1. Is this normal? Could it not be improved?: 2. Why does X not read the extended monitor spectrum at startup, and only offers higher resolutions - based on xorg.conf - later? 3. (w.r.t. Gnome:) All my nice panel settings that I do at 1600x1200 will inevitably be gone at restart, because the screen at startup cannot accommodate the icons, and automatically shifts them around, to be displayed on 1024x768. One way or another, Gnome doesn't seem to remember my preferences, and does not re-arrange them to my earlier, saved, preferences when 1600x1200 is reinstated. 4. is there a way to override the well-intended trial to autodetect the monitor, and just force a resolution down the throat of X immediately at start? Uwe -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
