Problem with VESA and 1680x1050

[Andrew J. Caines]

John,

> I have a new box with an onboard GeForce 8200, which is not supported
>  by the 'nv' driver yet.

If you don't mind the closed code and aren't running 64 bit, you can use
x11/nvidia-driver.

Another option is x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau, but according to the
status page[1], "Some gpu's integrated onto the motherboard do not
function with nouveau for unknown reason, they include the geforce
8200/8300"

You might be able to get more help if you provide the chip ID.

> (II) VESA(0): Not using mode "1680x1050" (no mode of this name) So
> what gives? It seems like VESA is aware that the mode is supported, 
> yet it drops it later on anyway.

That's not a VESA mode[1].


[1] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage#Status
[1] See e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions#Modes_defined_by_VESA
since vesa.org is useless for getting any information


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