FC4 screen resolution problem

[david walcroft]

Jean François Ortolo wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 10:25 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> 
>>On 10/12/05, Jean François Ortolo <ortolojf at free.fr> wrote:
>>[snip]
>>
>>>Section "Device"
>>>        Identifier  "Videocard0"
>>>        Driver      "vesa"
>>>        VendorName  "ASUS"
>>>        BoardName   "GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)"
>>>        videoram    0
>>>EndSection
>>
>>I doubt you will get very high screen resolution with the vesa driver.
>> I highly suggest that you install the nvidia driver and use it.  To
>>do that, install the driver as root, then change the "vesa" above to
>>"nvidia" and start X.  By the way, are you running 32-bit FC4 or
>>64-bit?  I also highly suggest 64-bit since you have an Athlon64 in
>>which case you will need to get the x86_64 nvidia driver.  I don't
>>know if the "nv" driver works with the newer cards, but you could also
>>try that one if you do not want to install the nvidia binary driver.
>>
>>
>>>Section "Screen"
>>>        Identifier "Screen0"
>>>        Device     "Videocard0"
>>>        Monitor    "Monitor0"
>>>        DefaultDepth     24
>>>        SubSection "Display"
>>>                Viewport   0 0
>>>                Depth     16
>>>                Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
>>>        EndSubSection
>>>        SubSection "Display"
>>>                Viewport   0 0
>>>                Depth     24
>>>                Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
>>>        EndSubSection
>>>EndSection
>>
>>You will need to add in the modes you want to use too, as has been stated.
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>  Jean Francois Ortolo
>>
>>Jonathan
>>
> 
> 
> Thank you very much Sir
> 
>   I have been trying only 1024x768 and 800x600, I doubt the vesa driver
> doesn't support 1024x768.
> 
>   I already tried the nVidia IA32 driver, for I presume I have 32-bits
> FC4, it was the only one available on ftp.free.fr , if I'm not wrong, at
> the time I downloaded it.
> 
>   With the IA32 nVidia driver, I have get exactly the same problem as
> now, before uninstalling it to return to the vesa driver.
> 
>   I send the xorg.conf content according to the problem:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	Identifier     "single head configuration"
> 	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> 	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> 	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
> 
> # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name
> of the 
> # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
> # no need to change the default.
> # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
> # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
> # the X server to render fonts.
> 	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> 	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
> 	Load  "dbe"
> 	Load  "extmod"
> 	Load  "fbdevhw"
> 	Load  "glx"
> 	Load  "record"
> 	Load  "freetype"
> 	Load  "type1"
   I think you need to remove "dri" as it cannot co-exist with "glx"
> 	Load  "dri"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"

   david