Re: [gNewSense-users] GeForce 7025 and gNS

[Bruno Miguel]

> 2008/12/12 Bruno Miguel <address@hidden>:
> > On Thursday 11 December 2008 04:43:35 Eric Padman wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 00:45 +0000, Bruno Miguel wrote:
> >> > On Wednesday 10 December 2008 23:15:41 Tor at Shared Genius wrote:
> >> > > Last I recall looking, the second command Eric gave you edited
> >> > > xorg.conf, but I believe there have been significant changes to X
> >> > > since then which may have altered the behavior of the command.  You
> >> > > may have to run it with X not running in order to get it to work
> >> > > correctly.  I believe a refresh rate of 60Hz is most universally
> >> > > supported by monitors, or if you know that your monitor supports
> >> > > something different you can try that.
> >> > >
> >> > > If you don't succeed with the second command given by Eric (copied
> >> > > below, for convenience), try taking out the -phigh option ( sudo
> >> > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg ).  This will run through a variety of
> >> > > options and let you manually select everything.  I believe you may
> >> > > also be able to add 'Driver   "nv"' to the device section of
> >> > > xorg.conf. Line shown in place below.
> >> >
> >> > That command only makes xorg.conf get the default values. With nv
> >> > driver added, X doesn't even start.
> >>
> >> Could you please post the Xorg log from /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
> >
> > Here it is:
>
> *snip*
>
> Sorry for the late reply. It looks like the nv driver doesn't support
> that particular chipset unfortunately.
>
> (--) PCI:*(0:18:0) nVidia Corporation unknown chipset (0x053e) rev 162, Mem
> @ 0xfb000000/24, 0xe0000000/28, 0xfc000000/24
>
> I would suggest you stick with vesa. It sounds like displayconfig-gtk
> doesn't have the right values for your monitor so you might have to
> find the monitor documentation and manually plug the values from that
> in to xorg.conf. The xorg.conf man page will show you how to do this.
> I've attached my xorg.conf for an example.
>
> Cheers,
> Eric (MentalNotes)

Thanks, Eric.

In Debian Etch and Lenny, I was able to have a screen resolution bigger than 
800x600. I'll leave it here so anyone with a similar problem can use it as a 
reference

Section "Module"
        Load    "bitmap"
        Load    "ddc"   
        Load    "dri"   
        Load    "extmod"
        Load    "freetype"
        Load    "glx"     
        Load    "int10"   
        Load    "vbe"     
EndSection                

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"             
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "pt"   
        Option          "XkbOptions"    "lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection                                               

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"           
        Option          "CorePointer"     
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"    
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"      
EndSection                                                  

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "nVidia Corporation NVIDIA Default Card"
        Driver          "vesa"                                  
        BusID           "PCI:0:18:0"                            
        Option          "UseFBDev"              "true"          
EndSection                                                      

#Section "Monitor"
#       Identifier      "Samsung SyncMaster 765MB"
#       Option          "DPMS"                    
#       HorizSync       31.5 - 80.5               
#       VertRefresh     60 - 75                   
#       HorizSync       28-64                     
#       VertRefresh     43-60                     
#EndSection                                       

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Samsung SyncMaster 765MB"
        ModelName    "Samsung SyncMaster 765MB/715MB/CD175D(P)"
#        DisplaySize  320        240                           
        HorizSync    30.0 - 85.0                               
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0                              
        Option      "dpms"                                     
EndSection                                                     

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "nVidia Corporation NVIDIA Default Card"
        Monitor         "Samsung SyncMaster 765MB"              
        DefaultDepth    24                                      
        SubSection "Display"                                    
                Depth           1                               
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection                                                     
        SubSection "Display"                                              
                Depth           4                                         
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           8
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           15
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           16
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode    0666
EndSection