FBSD 5.2.1 - video card resolution problem
Konrad Heuer
kheuer2 at gwdg.de
Fri Apr 16 06:39:02 PDT 2004
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Brian Henning wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I am running bsd 5.2.1 and I installed the nvidia driver from the ports for the
> follwoing video card.
>
> dmesg
>
> nvidia0: <GeForce2 MX 100/200> mem 0xc0000000-0xc7ffffff,0xce000000-0xceffffff
> irq 5 at device 0.0 on pci1
>
> pciconf results:
>
> class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x011110de rev=0xb2 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
> device = 'GeForce2 MX 100/200 (DDR) [NV11DDR]'
> class = display
> subclass = VGA
>
>
>
> The installation went good, the card was recognized. The problem is the
> resolution doesn't get to my desired setting.
>
> ..
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "SUN"
> ModelName "574"
> HorizSync 30-70
> VertRefresh 50-120
> Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> ..
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Card0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 24
>
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Above are my XF86Config settings but all I get is a resolution of 640x480. Is
> there a way to get a higher resolution with this card?
Take a look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log; it contains a rather voluminous log
written by XFree86. You may find a reason there why modes other than
640x480 are excluded.
Regards
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