Nvidia resolution problem

Rik Scarborough RikSca at kc.rr.com
Tue Jun 17 09:26:40 PDT 2003


On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> Does your monitor support higher resolutions? If you have an old monitor,
> did you put proper values in the monitor section of your XF86Config?

It's a new flat screen monitor.  I've pretty much ignored that, taking
the values from the setup and concentrated on the driver.  I'll take a
look at that.

~Rik
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Rik Scarborough wrote:
> 
> > I cannot get the resolution for X above 800x600 (although I'm not sure,
> > it could be one smaller than that).  The main problem is I can't see all
> > the dialogs for KDE; they won't fit on the screen.
> >
> > I've upgraded the box to FreeBSD 4.8 release.  I've uninstalled and
> > reinstalled XFree86 to the latest ports (the overall port is
> > XFree86-4.3.0,1).  I'm using the driver from the ports.
> >
> > the Display section has the following modes:
> >     "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> >
> > Any ideas on how to increase the resolution?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ~Rik


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