latest NVIDIA driver problem

[Tim Fenn]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:06:10PM -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:53 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
> > On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:40:48 -0600
> > Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> opined:
> > > I have a fully updated system with an nvidia FX 5500 video card.
> > > It was working well with the Nvidia 1.0-7676 driver on every kernel I
> > > have used.
> > > 
> > > I recently updated to the latest driver (1.0-8174) and have a problem I
> > 
> > The latest driver is 8178!
> I just tried that one and it is the same as 8174 for me.
> The driver refuses to use the specified VertRefresh for my monitor.
> 

I had a similar problem, for some reason only after updating to 8174
and/or 8178 on a viewsonic VP191b.  It appeared that the EDID
information reported by the monitor wasn't valid for the resolution
I wanted, so I ended up setting "UseEdidFreqs" to false and setting
the refresh rates by hand.  Alternatively, just switch to a different
resolution (ctrl-alt-shift-numky+).

HTH,
Tim

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