Xorg trouble with nvidia graphic card

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Nov 18 21:42:51 GMT 2005


ivan.Roth at free.fr writes:

> First, sorry about asking two questions at the same time.
> 
> I am using freeBSD 6.0 under Gnome 2.10 and I am having trouble with display
> resolution. I got the same issue under many Linux distributions I tried last
> month (including FC4, Debian an Suse 10.0).
> 
> The issue is that display is like "full of blur" in 1280x1024 resolution but
> perfect in 1024x768. I tried to update the nvidia driver under Linux and
> finally got a good display after some more changes.
> 
> I don't know how to reproduce this so I cannot work at 1280x1024.
> 
> I am not sure to be clear enough. Do not hesitate to ask me more informations.

The same configuration file would probably work.
If you don't need acceleration, you could try the regular open-source
driver (nv instead of nvidia) and probably get good results.


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