Nvidia Driver Woahs

[Carnevil]

Well I can't seem to figure this one out. My monitors native resolution is 1600x1200 which it ran fine under an older nvidia driver. Upgrading to the most recent versions both of the 100 series drivers, it won't run higher than 1280x1024. Both in Linux and FreeBSD, even setting it in xorg (unless I missed something) still doesn't work. I can't run the older Driver in FreeBSD because it doesn't play nice with 7.0.

Am I the only one seeing this and anybody got any suggestions that I haven't tried?

Hell I even took a conf file from somebody with the same Monitor and it still wouldn't work.

Specifications of my Monitor.

http://www.samsung.com/au/products/monitor...ual/204b.asp?pa

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  ([email protected].)  Sat Oct 13 17:20:41 EDT 2007

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  ([email protected])  Tue Sep 18 14:24:16 PDT 2007

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/local/lib/X11/rgb"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Samsung SyncMaster"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 81.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce FX 5700 Ultra"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"

    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

[hitest]

Any luck with running xorgconfig, or manually editing xorg.conf?

[jcl]

You could

 $ startx -- -logverbose 5

and dig through the Xorg log to see how the driver is determining the monitor's max resolution. The NVIDIA driver can be told to ignore the information provided by the monitor, if that's the problem.

Edited October 14, 2007 by jcl

[Carnevil]

Thanks for the help guys, I figured it out. The simplest answer and the one I totally overlooked fixed my problem. I switched to the legacy driver and that has fixed my issue. I thought about that after I created this thread. I spent all that time and all I had to do was switch to legacy. Hopefully when they update the legacy driver it'll still work.

[hitest]

Cool. Glad you figured it out, my friend!