Will my graphics card support this?

Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Fri Dec 29 02:28:47 UTC 2006


On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 09:15:01PM -0500, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> I received a Dell 20 inch monitor for Christmas. It's native resolution 
> is 1680x1050. Looking at my Xorg.0.log file, I find these lines:
> 
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)



> Do these lines mean my video card will not support this resolution or 
> that I need to do some configuration to get the card to support this 
> resolution or something else entirely?

Have you run system-config-display (as root)? It should detect the new
monitor and let you make whatever adjustments seem appropriate.

Just in case, back up /etc/X11/xorg.conf before you do so. Just in
case.

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