Will my graphics card support this?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 12/28/06, Andrew Robinson <awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Charles Curley wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> system-config-display fails with a host of python error messages. Can
> you tell me how to fix that?

system-config-display has no knowledge of the nvidia X driver, and
will not fix this problem.  If the hsync is out of range then either
the EDID in your display has bogus information, or the EDID isn't
detected at all and your xorg.conf has faulty values for the hsync.

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